if you're involved as a public school teacher, then I'd imagine it seems impossible to change the way the system (dys)functions. However, in my opinion radical change in management can cause radical change in how the system works. The great thing about vouchers is that it facilitates radical change in management for a portion of the schools. When the trail-blazing radicals among the voucher-funded schools develop their methods, then these methods can be grafted onto the public schools.
When the trail-blazing radicals among the voucher-funded schools develop their methods, then these methods can be grafted onto the public schools.You're gettin kinda close Red ... but IMHO, ultimately, the government schools will survive only to service the ineducable, to provide them with minimal survival skills.
Logically, the government schools would disappear tomorrow.
But the reality of the situation is that this monstrous bureaucracy is peopled (to a depressingly huge proportion) by a body of folk who never dreamed they would be put out there on stage to be measured on their own merits and judged by the results of their effort or lack thereof.
To overcome this situation will take no less than a parental revolution.