If the private schools take fed/state money they may have to start doing state testing and take 'orders' from the state in the same maner public schools do. And thats the reason why public schools are failing.
State regulations (though of course it depends on the state) do have a lot to do with why public schools are failing, but chronic underfunding (or misuse of funding, more like) of key areas, the lack of good teachers in critical areas of the country, the retention rate of the good teachers that we do have, administrative bureaucracy, and a whole host of other areas eat into our public school system. To point at any one of these as "the reason" ignores the weightiness of the other horrifying incompetencies.
I don't discount her knowledge of this at all! However, I have had a stake in this for years as well, albeit not as personally. Both my father and mother were teachers, and I was intimately involved in their eventual leaving of the profession; not to mention, where a lot of the hell of the regulatory bullshit comes from is Ross Perot's "reforms" in Texas, which has one of the craziest public schooling systems ANYWHERE, and was taught by a lot of activist teachers who just loved to expound on everything.
So what I'm saying is, I don't discount what she's saying at all, but I'd appreciate the same consideration; I may not have had a personal dog in this hunt, but it's one of my major sources of political interest. The sanctity of public education is very extremely strong with me.
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So what I'm saying is, I don't discount what she's saying at all, but I'd appreciate the same consideration; I may not have had a personal dog in this hunt, but it's one of my major sources of political interest. The sanctity of public education is very extremely strong with me.