[firebrand]

I think the answer lies in privatizing-out parts of public school operations and thereby making it subject to the laws of competition between suppliers. Not just physical services but curricula as well. Philadelphia has done it--with varied success, but the system can be improved.

I believe the public-school system is too huge for our children's education as a whole to be improved by charter schools and vouchers--they will always be a drop in the bucket, as the intense competition for charter schools shows. We should instead work within the public-school system to make it successful.

We also don't want thousands of different philosophies separating us as a people. Who knows what's being taught at the This World Is Ours charter school? I know that the larger public schools are overrun with leftists, and that needs to be remedied as well.

[patton]

You have completely passed over the point, that the worst public education available is substaintially more expensive than the best private education, including horsebackriding and whitewater rafting.

Still want your kids in public school?