Seems to me that there is no way for the teachers to pass along learning skills to unreceptive children no matter how much they or the school administrators are paid. You can staff a inner city school with the top .5% of teachers in the USA but when the kids dad is in loser in prison, dead or on crack and the mom is not much better (for the 5th generation) test scores are not going to rise.

When are we going to learn that you cannot teach those that are not open to learning what you are trying to teach. It actually takes alot of stupidity by the parents to put a kid in a place where he/she does not want to learn in school since all children by nature want badly to learn.

I'm all for giving parents X dollars for each child to go to school and schools then become private. If you blow the $ or buy some 22 inch rims instead of helping your kid learn then tough ***** for you and the kid. I'm sick of my (and everyone's) tax money being spend on your kid because you as a parent make the wrong choices.