A Good First Step

No, not killing all the lawyers. Texas has released the 380+ page report of a study we paid nearly a million bucks to conduct, analyzing spending on government schools vs. the results as evaluated by student scores on standard tests. This study is apparently "hard" so we're the first ones to do it.

Now let's have the second step which if not done renders the first meaningless: Identify what the five-star schools are doing right, and what the inferior schools do wrong, and FIX IT. I'll give them even odds of pointing the finger at a cultural breakdown in the black and hispanic communities, but that's an area that MUST be addressed if you really want your children educated well. Also, you have to get some sort of student accountability for learning, but that would be a paradigm shift and I don't look for it any time soon.

We'll see. Meanwhile, as long as it's legal, chez VFD will be doing double-duty as a school house where at least our own children will be properly educated.