[RoosterRedux]

Just off the top of my head, I would think the problem with schools is a lack of academic competition between them. By that I mean that they are controlled by bureaucracies that resist the competition of educational ideas and methods.

One of the reasons the business model in America is successful is that all the different businesses are competing with each other to win the loyalty of the consumer. The best businesses win and the others disappear.

Schools can't do that because the education bureaucracy won't permit it.

Schools need to be liberated from the government and the education mafia.

[ConservativeInPA]

I would think the problem with schools is a lack of academic competition between them

You are correct. Public school teachers and teachers are vehemently against competition. They fight against charter schools, school choice and any changes to their funding model. But why? The vast majority of teachers are leftists, are poorly educated themselves, and have at best average cognitive abilities. They need a monopoly because they are just smart enough to know competition will put the in the unemployment line. They will fight any change. They are cornered and dangerous.

[Dr. Sivana]

Schools need to be liberated from the government and the education mafia.

Arizona has introduced an ESA (Education Savings Account) that goes direct to parents. Besides an already thriving charter school environment, Phoenix is flush with private schools of every flavor. If you are homeschooling, you can take the money, risking oversight, or ignore the ESA and continue as you were.

[GingisK]

I would think the problem with schools is a lack of academic competition between them

Did you know that most of the undesirable changes to school policy were due to parents taking the schools to court? For example, parents attack teachers and schools when their little darling can't make the grade. What you have now is the result of decades of parental defense of dunces.