Ravitch right on.

• Author: Bishop, Jordan
• Position: Letters to the Editor - Letter to the editor

Diane Ravitch's excellent article on the school situation in many parts of the United States tells it like it is ("Saving Our Public Schools," October issue).

I worked for many years in Latin America, where the education system is two-tier. The elites send their children to private schools.

The public schools are, for the most part, of poor quality and underfunded. I had data on one such school in the capital city of a Latin American country: The dropout rate by grade twelve was 96...