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If it weren't so sad it would be laughable.

Every month there are extensive threads here, full of complaints about the hospital and lack of "good" doctors "who speak English", "went to a top medical school"...blah, blah, blah. People rave about how the only hospital they think is worth going to is MassGeneral, or some other huge teaching and research center.

People (rightly) complain about how TVRH has horribly long wait times in the ER during peak season. Obviously, top hospital administrators, nurses, technicians, engineers, etc. are needed here, and there have to be benefits offered to them to want to move here to work. Why would a sought-after young doctor or nurse or dentist with children want to move to a retirement community??

So when TV developers start a school system to attract young, fresh, brilliant and caring doctors, nurses, dentists, engineers, carpenters, landscape architects, golf-course builders and greens superintendents etc. to move here without reluctance to have to send their children to mediocre or weak or dangerous public schools, people use the charter schools as one more way to condemn the developer for being "rich" and "greedy" (never mind the fact that we all chose to spend our money here without a gun to our heads).

The sad part is that those who claim to care so much about the kids, really want them to have to stay in schools that are dangerous, mediocre or weak in instruction, and poorly managed....so that the unions can keep their hold on them, instead of the parents who only get one chance to raise and educate their kids the best way they can find.