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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, February 14, 1992                   TAG: 9202140451
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-10   EDITION: METRO 
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PARENTS SHOULD GET INVOLVED

I AGREE with Margie Fisher's Feb. 2 column about home schoolers. However, I take issue with her indictment of the whole public school system.

I encourage her to visit any of the three local school systems and then pass judgment. Her comments sound like a rehash of all the negative comments the media throw around every day.

When I was growing up in New Jersey in 1960, my father placed me in a Catholic school because he felt the public schools were inferior. Was not the movie "Blackboard Jungle" done in the mid-1950s? Have public schools really changed that much in 30 years?

I read recently in your paper that one family was considering transferring their son from one school system to another for a better football program. When society gets many parents transferring their children because of academics and when they become more involved, then you will see real reform. To complain is human; to do something about it, divine. CHARLES JULG JR. SALEM

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