" I'd love to see a public school that makes money. "

I don't mean in the sense that they turn a profit. Check out your local school district and find out where the money goes. ALL of the money. Does over half of it go for administration?

By the 1960s, over a hundred studies had been made to determine the best way to teach kids to learn. One hundred percent of the studies showed pure phonics did the job. Zero percent showed the current see/say methods worked. The schools said the tests were 'flawed'. ALL the tests were flawed. They continued to 'teach' by methods proven not to work. They gradually pretended to include 'some' phonics, and call it the 'combined method'. It doesn't work either. This sounds stupid, doesn't it?

But there's a method to their madness. Every time they've got a student who can't seem to learn, they can label him/her as 'learning disabled', and get more federal tax dollars to 'fix' the problem. Nothing changes, but the money rolls in.

I'm sure you've heard of the 'no child left behind' program. The schools produce children who really are being left behind educationally, and now get more money for producing them. And the money rolls in.

The schools can collect income from Medicaid, as they can have their special ed teachers file claims for providing 'medical services'. They aren't really providing medical services, it's just a matter of a couple of teachers talking about students, but Medicaid is billed just the same, and the dollars roll in.

The last time I checked my property tax bill, 55% of it went to the schools. And that's just property taxes. They get it from lots of other places, too. It simply rolls in from knee-jerk reactions because 'it's for the kids'. Well, it's not for the kids. They don't give a rat's patootie about the kids. It's about the money.

Sue