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“you really are thick. You just are too thick to follow an adult conversation. Obviously a public school student, and probably now PS teacher or bureaucrat.”

I don’t want to hit this next point to hard, but the key to knowing your opponent is out of rhetorical points is that he, or she, starts using insults.

Every Democrat in politics does the same thing, and every liberal that can’t articulate their position as well.

And you are wrong, again. I went to a Catholic School until eighth grade, and then public school through college. The Catholic school left me so disadvantaged mathematically that I thank God that we had the PSAT prior to the SAT, or I’d have been caught flat footed. The nuns decided math wasn’t a priority in the middle school grades (science either) and let that slide. I studied for a year to put back the math I’d lost and did well on the SAT.

I graduated from one of the five federal military academies with a BSEE.

I’ve owned small businesses since I left the service. I’ve launched two, and built three software products from concept to market. I own a software company and consulting firm.

All I am pointing out is what I see out there. Some use the PS system as a ticket out. Some don’t, and nothing will change the fact that some kids won’t realize until it is too late all the great free stuff they had at their fingertips and lost.

If you are done with the insults, and want to have a real adult conversation about business models in education, check out College of the Ozarks. There was a piece in the WSJ about it today.

While it is true they have a $400M endowment to work from, the rest is a thing of beauty, and appears to be replicable for many majors.

And I maintain charters are still probably the best way forward. Some schools are going to end up being sink traps full of irredeemable kids.

I don’t think you could do a ‘College of the Ozarks’ for K-12. Montessori schools are hit and miss, and not everyone can do home schooling.