[FLAMING DEATH]

I agree totally. The system does NOT promote accountability. It reminds me of the '70's SNL commercial of the phone company where Lily Tomlin nonchalantly wreaks havoc with the phone system, and then, at the end of the commercial, she says, "We're the phone company. Where else you gonna go?"

The only thing that will correct the American educational system is complete revolution and turning the whole big mess over to the free market. Vouchers are a step in the right direction, but people need to be given the CHOICE of having their tax dollars going to the private school where their children attend.

If money starts coming out of the bureaucrats pockets because they're trying to sell an inferior product, the product will have to get better, or if it can't compete, it will die.

[CyberCowboy777]

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

- C.S. Lewis