Reply #93: I agree with much of the sentiment here.

[Yukari Yakumo]

In my experience, I've concluded that unions and administrators are typically looking out for #1 than the students. Of course, instead of looking for real solutions, they've routinely opted to cook the books. NCLB hasn't helped matters. In fact, it made things even worse.

As it is now, public education in America is, at best, mediocre, and, at worst, abysmal. And the powers that be have no interest in fixing it. (Probably because they don't want to admit they made mistakes. So they compound their earlier mistakes with even more mistakes.)