Nor do they mind attending school events or helping students with homework on a regular basis. A student who excels in virtue will also excel in academics. Strong character actually makes it easier for children to learn. In fact, supply-side ethics explain the extraordinary success of hundreds of private and parochial schools, as well as the geometric growth of the home schooling movement. Greater academic achievement is credited to a greater appreciation of responsibility, hard work, self-discipline, and integrity.
Students also gain a better sense of the intrinsic value of education.
The public school establishment may not agree, but many public school teachers do. Fifty-three percent of all public school teachers in Cleveland send their children to private schools. The same goes for 49 percent in Boston and 39 percent in Los Angeles. They do it because they know that virtue is an absolute necessity for a safe and productive learning environment. They have seen what has happened to the public school system as teachers have been gradually stripped of their moral authority, including the authority to discipline students and the authority to teach certain moral absolutes.