Education is not about teachers or administrators or taxes, it is about our future in freedom and the current system steals that from us generation by generation.
For many FReepers, destruction of the current education system wouldn't matter. Many either homeschool or send their children to private school anyway - and if they don't, they are capable of doing so.
On the other hand, most of the students I teach are of very low socioeconomic level. Their parents would not be able to afford private schools, and many of the parents aren't capable of homeschooling, either because of their working hours or because of their own lack of education.
For these students, public schools, while not perfect, offer the only available opportunity for an education and a chance at a better life.
For this reason, even though I don't believe the Federal government should be involved in education, I do support the "No Child Left Behind" initiative - I hope it will do away with some of the social promotion and other administrative/liberal programs that have helped bring education to its current low level.