[Brilliant]

It's really not about money in most places. It's about lack of competition. On the other hand, there are some places where more money would help, if you could assure that it would be used properly. The problem is that without competition, you don't have that assurance.

If the government gave me a voucher for my kids, I could supplement that voucher, if I did not think it was enough. Unfortunately, I don't have that choice.

[Coldwater Creek]

Some do not have a choice, but most do. I am sympathetic with single mother's. There a lot of scholarships out there to private schools, or one could always homeschool.

A person might think that they are not suited to homechool, but look at the alternative. I would starve to death before I would let one of my grandchildren go to a government school. I am not putting down anyone just to make it clear on the front end.

[RobbyS]

It is also because the schools keep looking for the "silver bullet." When somes one does comes up with a solution, the "answer" is taken up uncritically, as if the "business model" did not depend intimately on good execution, of continuous readjustment to changing conditions. It is as if Microsoft, after securing a huge market, went to congress for funding to secure its market and succeeded.

But it goes beyond this. Business throws big bucks at CEOs and they still fail. These guys may be golden parachutes but everyone acknowledges that they have failed. The school system give big bucks to superintendents and they always fail. That's because they are really just politicians who have limited power to change anything.