Quote Originally Posted by amsterdam
maybe a government controled system would work better?like health care?

You're only bashing your own kind with that, buddy. NCLB is an attempt at just that.

I have my own solution. No one would ever go for it, but I can guarantee its success. Take 1/3 of the funds allocated for defense and divert them to public education. Not only will you instantly raise teacher salaries to the point where solid high school and college students would consider being a teacher, you give every kid his own textbooks, you eliminate cramped temporary classrooms, you give kids a place to go after school to continue education and stay out of trouble (read: lower crime), you rebuild crumbling inner-city schools, you fund school lunch and breakfast programs, college tuition becomes nearly free for qualifying students (kind of like the Hope scholarships in GA) and you finally put America at par with how much of a percentage of GDP other industrialized nations spend on education. Moreover, in a generation, you raise a group of smarter citizens who probably wouldn't need so much defending.

That's just my take though.