>>Positions of leadership that require skill should be decided by election, while those that demand only good sense should be chosen by lot.<<
It is time we cleaned out the public school systems. The lack of good sense is overwhelming in those systems!
I am not quite sure that an electoral process is the answer either when I review our politicians.
It's interesting because Bush wants to centralize our school funding and administration even further, thinking that while conservatives are in power, we can really fix the problems with federal carrots and sticks. However, what will happen when a Hillary Clinton is in office, and her democrat congress and liberal courts have access to federal education funding? State schools are our biggest problem, from kindergarten through post graduate studies.