(from the Observer) According to a Gallup poll, Americans rank public schools as the fifth best option of five, with only 44 percent considering them excellent or good, and nearly 20 percent ranking them as poor. As for homeschooling, 46 percent of respondents rate homeschooling as excellent or good, and 15 percent give it a poor grade. Charter schools come in third, while parochial schools are second with 63 percent rating them excellent or good, and only nine percent as poor. Independent private schools earned the highest ratings; there was a 27 percentage point gap between respondents who rated education at private schools vs. public schools as excellent or good.
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