yep. I am not a big fan of the government taking control of education as it just seems they fail time and time again, even in developed countries.

The major problem is that I don't know of anyone that has a solution to it. My parents worked very hard to be able to send me and my siblings to private school and that worked out a lot, but they also did a great job of educating us at home.

The school system can not take over the job of parenting. I dunno what I am talking about... basically I agree with almost everything you wrote up there.. good article.