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[quote=Anonymous][quote]If a school sucks, there should be no accountability? Whether it's the feds or the state or local should make zero difference, the distinction people keep trying to make there is bullshit as we live in an era of globalization, where tailoring education by locality is not particularly relevant or, for that matter, appropriate - there absolutely does need to be accountability, and if a school is failing its students they need to either bolster their program or let someone else handle it. That's MY deep sentiment - I DO NOT want our kids to be failed by the schools. FIX it, don't just pretend there's no problem and everything's fine and complain about intrusion.[/quote]

Of course there are problems.  What those problems are, how they have arisen, and how to solve them are all questions worth discussing.  Nobody wants our kids to be "failed by the schools" if, in fact, that is the institution in society that is failing them.

If you look at where there are good schools (the "non failing" ones), there are usually parents and community holding those schools accountable (and that is why the schools are good).  That is also why private schools are generally good and not "failing".  What I contend is that the problems go way beyond "standards and tests" and that by focusing on "standards and tests" a whole lot of solutions are being left behind.  And, I don't agree that it doesn't matter whether it's the feds or state or local.  Responsibility for children starts at home and then goes out to the community.  The feds are pretty much last on the chain.  I don't care how "global" we are; the smallest social unit---the family---is the most important one in all ways.  The community has a big interest in making the kids successful because the local economy depends on having skilled workers in practically all regions of America.  We don't have a whole lot of unskilled areas left.  I don't think the feds are the only level concerned about the kids.  Most families and communities are very, very concerned (and if they are not, there is little the feds can do).[/quote]

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