Jim -

With regard to teachers unions......  Everywhere I have been where there
was a union, there was a good reason for that union to be there.  In
some places the reason no longer existed, but the union persisted.

Dave -

Your example works well in the case you mention, then there is the case
of the student suspended for saving his girl friend's life.  No amount
of intervention by the parents did any good.  If this had happened to
you I will be you no longer would support the schools 100%

Like the unions I mentioned above, the Department of Education has
persisted after the reason for it to be there is gone.

I suggest the Department of Education be given the job of managing
the Washington DC schools, then when we see a favorable performance/
dollar ratio, we let them start involving themselve in the affairs
of other schools.

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