[Amelia]

Who fights harder to prevent any move to reform public education than public school teachers?

Well, there are the parents of public school children.

You know, the ones who think their darlings ought to be able to come to school with hair of any length, color, or shape, wearing whatever best expresses their individuality...

The ones who think their little darlings will be irretrievably warped if they have to listen to a Bible story or say the Pledge of Allegiance or if they get a spanking....

The ones who don't think their babies ought to be punished for cheating or for anything else, because their babies are always right and the teacher is always wrong...

You know the ones, I'm sure.

[RavenATB]

You know as well as do I, that public school teachers as a group, are the most vocal and caustic opponents of every attempt to offer people a public supported option to failing public schools. Pretend all you like. Blame parents as you wish. The truth is that public school teachers know this problem as well as anyone, and public school teachers--not all, but a great many--are unwilling to take any step that would change the course of public education in order to fix the improve the quality of education.