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The government-school establishment has said the same thing for decades: Education is too important to leave to the competitive market. If we really want to help our kids, we must focus more resources on the government schools.
But despite this mantra, the focus is on something other than the kids. When The Washington Post asked George Parker, head of the Washington, D.C., teachers union, about the voucher program there, he said: "Parents are voting with their feet. ... As kids continue leaving the system, we will lose teachers. Our very survival depends on having kids in D.C. schools so we'll...
Education: Too Important for a Government Monopoly
The teacher was to hand the books to the students and then allow the students to study at their own rate and time. The idea was that the students would get interested in math, for instance, and work through half the book at once over a couple of weeks' time and then go on to something else. Each child would work at his own pace on what he wanted to study. The teacher would simply answer questions as the students brought them up. This was during his seventh and eighth grades of school.
For some reason the kids decided that their best field of study should be recess. After two years of this the school district abandoned it because the kids were now...