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> It is terribly difficult to convince anyone at all that this is a sensible
> way to educate children. We all take any family that can pay tuition and can
> manage to pretend at least for a while that they can deal with the worry that
> having children play all day brings to them without going over the edge.
> They don't really have to support the philosophy, as Romey wishfully says.
> They have to hope that they can long enough to get us a student body.
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> If we don't get/keep these schools going, who possibly could? If we don't
> create these schools, then no children at all will be able to go to them. If
> we don't create models no one will be able to see that it works, so it won't
> spread more deeply into the society and eventually be available (and
> acceptable -- by far the biggest problem) to a larger segment of the
> population. So maybe it will be time to worry about whether or not to
> massage the right mixture into the student and staff group someday (I hope
> not, it is odious to me), but not now: any mixture at all will suffice.
This is so obviously right that I wish it could stand as the final word in
this increasingly tiresome thread.
Couldn't we just move on now?
Charles Bell