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Mrs. Payne is a native of Rappahannock County and a graduate of Rappahannock County High School, which proves that private schools have no comer on the market of talent. Put Mrs. Payne in a classroom with 10 privateschool students, and 1 think she would work miracles and wonder where the challenge was.

Which calls to mind something my stepdaughter. Allison, told me. Until this year, her freshman year, Allison had attended Collegiate, a highly-regarded private school in Richmond.

Last summer, however, Allison’s mother and stepfather moved to a suburb of Chicago where no private school was available. So Allison entered a public school for the first time. Her assessment? “The teachers are better.”

Seriously? How so?

“They work harder to make their lessons interesting.

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