On second thought...how about a salary cap for schools?
This could be like the NFL. Schools with high test scores get more money from the taxpayers, but they are limited in how much they can spend paying students. Good students might then seek to be traded for better pay to an underperforming school with more room under its salary cap. In March, the School Board could actually hold a draft of rising 9th graders for entering high school.
The REAL need for a salary cap would be our present CONGRESS!
You have the mistaken belief that institutional schools actually **teach** something. They don't. They merely send home a curriculum for the parents to follow.
( See Dixie's post #29 with her supervising writing assignments and going over flash cards.)
It is the parents and the child himself who do 99% of the work in the home. Schools that appear to be successful have tons of “afterschooling” parents.
It is likely that not only is the typical government school model a complete an utter idiocy for the child of a dysfunctional home, its methods also retard the academic progress of kids in normal families as well.
With my own kids, the government school flat out **refused** to believe that my children were 3 and 4 years ahead of the assigned class work. I figured that I might as well officially homeschool. I was homeschooling anyway before and after their institutional school.