Given our country's difficulty in educating kids, you'd think the formula for successful schools were as hard to understand as motivic cohomology or banach space.
When it came time for Martin Lujan to choose a high school for his oldest son, one thing was clear: he wanted a school in which discipline and academics were a priority.
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Kim Pletcha is the editor of Parent:Wise magazine.
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