Quote:Look at it this way, if the schools get the money directly then there is no incentive to improve. Maybe in Ireland you can go to any school you want, but in most places in the US the government assigns each student to a particular public school. If that school is terrible your child is out of luck unless you are rich enough to pay for a private school alternative. If every student was given the same stipend and the parents could choose the school, then every family could get their children into a good school, and the poor schools would go out of business.

There are soooo many factors that play into what you call a "bad" school. Trust me, there is ALREADY incentive for a school to perform. We feel insane amounts of pressure, especially at this time of year.


Closing schools is an awful idea regardless of reasoning.


Schools are already competing with each other--teachers against teachers, schools vs. schools, districts vs. districts. It hasn't done any good because the problem isn't the schools.

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