[grania]

Have you ever seen the effects of school choice, when less motivated students transfer into more motivated schools? They bring their attitudes and behaviors with them.

It's just not true all the time that failing schools fail because of lousy teachers and lousy administration. Sometimes it's that there are so many impediments to enforcing rules and standards.

[reasonisfaith]

Failing schools fail because of the way centralized control broadly funnels stupid ideas in a top down manner, and the corrupting effect of unions like the NEA.