Reply #52: You want to fix troubled schools?

[Maestro]

First start with the ones that operate the school. Once the teaching profession is considered a profession and something is done to attract the best and brightest into public education with salaries comensurate with the task at hand, you will see schools improve. Currently, many troubled schools are troubled because of poor teaching skills by the teachers and the use of curriculums that are poorly organized. So attract motivated, intelligent, teachers that can make a living being a teacher and provide them with a curriculum that stimulates critical thought instead of rote memorization of skills. Oh and also the school needs to open up to the community involving it in any way it can.