[Freedom4US]

Our local editor wrote an interesting piece about public schools. A hypothetical $1,000,000 school could also represent ten $100,000 schools, one on every corner so to speak. I mentioned this to a teacher friend and immediately she allowed that this would cost too much, because ten times the number of teachers and related personnell would be required. Isn't this a rather odd thing for a teacher to say on its face? Anyway, what the educational elites have done is homogenized and mass-produced education - it is a commodity and no deviation from the desired outcome is wanted nor tolerated. Big, regional schools with a standardized product is the mandate.
In another ten years you will not recognize this country.

[IronJack]

I have had numerous dealings with my local school administration. In fact, they have my picture up around their water cooler with a "Dead or Alive" stamp on it. Never have I seen a group of people who drone platitudes and yet do so little to live up to them. Everything is always "for the children." But when you ask them to deviate in any way from their standardized, one-size-fits-all, square peg programs, they just laugh at you. Your child is not supposed to be unique in any way, and if he is, they will either crush that difference or send him to Misfit Central (of course, it will be innocuously euphemized to something like "Alternate Scheduling" or "Challenge Environment").

Ironically enough, dealing with the Schoolosphere has forced me to learn vast amounts of chicanery, legal mumbo-jumbo, and bureaucratic procedure. I'm getting so good at it I could be a public servant.