Further evidence of the wrong headedness of our educational "elite" and governors. Everyone knows that specialized schools have the highest rates of success in terms of stimulating student achievement,  reducing drop out rates and creating positive learning communities within their precincts.  Yet it's as if there was a plot by these very same people to make sure that they drive parents who are concerned about their children's education into the private school system, further depriving the public system of the parental interest and  motivated students that are required to help the public system maximize it's success. And too, it further supports our existing class system where in reality those children who come from monied (not necessarily rich)  homes with well educated parents continue to succeed and dominate the adult workplace and elsewhere, leaving those from less fortunate circumstances to fall further and further behind (thus widening the income gap and everything else).