An opinion piece in the Post, quality journalism .

According to the NY Post, the Obama Administration relaxed the code for discipline in schools, which resulted in the trouble student in Florida going under the radar.https://nypost.com/2017/12/23/obamas-l ... m_campaign=site%20buttons

I thought I'd share an interesting view my neighbor had about his children's schooling and how he made the choice to where to send them.

1. He did the standard academic results of the past 4 years and the retention of teachers at the schools over the same period, but most importantly he;
2. Requested from prospective schools the amount of detentions, suspensions, expulsions, reports of theft and Police interventions the schools were experiencing over a 4 year period and boy! did alarm bells go off. On speaking to other parents in the neighborhood they weren't impressed by how this sort of information was kept hidden from parents.

Enlight of all the school shootings in the US, one would think schools would focus on disciplinary issues and how to deal and mitigate it !

Even though the information my neighbor found out with a few private and public schools in our district, I'm betting it's nothing like some schools in the US are experiencing.

On a personal note, choosing a school is no different to choosing a neighborhood to live in ... if anything more important to a parent.

By the way, it's still very warm in Melbourne and generally speaking, I find Australians have a easy going attitude to most things but it will be done right work ethic.

Thanks.

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Elementary is Pre-K through 5th grade
Grammar is Pre-K through 8th grade

What is the distinction between Elementary and Grammar?

See where each school in Jersey City ranks against its peers, according to the performance of its students on annual PARCC tests:

https://jerseycityed.com/parcc-score-reports/

The results include charter schools and are grouped by school type (Elementary, Grammar, MS, MS/HS, HS).