I should have added that all three of the girls were dressed in parochial school uniforms. The public schools are hampered by the mandate to "teach to the test" that focuses entirely on facts with no regard or reward for analysis or original thought. So as much as I decry Betsy DeVoss' animosity toward public education it is encouraging parents who care about their child's education to put them into private schools that are able to focus on education and not THE TEST. But that is another rant
Very often parents who put their children in private schools hire for their children private tutors to teach to the test. It is quite rampant here in California and has motivated the University of California system to eliminate (over the next 9 years) the SAT and ACT as entrance requirements. Of course they will replace them with their own institutional exam that will be "better".
