The School Of Schools.

There are two schools of thought on schools. One school thinks that failing schools should be replaced by private voucher based schools while the other school thinks that if we are to continue to provide  free schooling to all American children we cannot abandon failing public schools. So what school on schools do you belong to? Personally, I like to look back into our history to a time when school was for only the wealthy. Then it was decided, or perhaps I should say that it was recognized that if we wanted to have a successful democracy and if we wanted to have a competitive advantage in the world, our society needed to have a well schooled workforce. That could only happen, it was realized, if we had a public school system. Ya see, school is where young people go to learn. Previously the only schools available were private and above the means of the average person to pay.  Fast forward to today when the answers to modern schooling is to abandon poorly functioning/achieving schools for charter schools and the like. Now our heritage has always been to make things work. If it didn't work, we were always able to figure out how to make it work. To improve it not discard it. . Well actually that's not quite true. Usually we make better models that work better, and that's great for a car engine, but that almost always means more expensive. To the buyer. But that was the whole idea of public schooling. To require that every child must receive free schooling. So let's look down the road to see where vouchers lead to. The better the school, the higher the tuition and that leaves out the less fortunate who will be forced to attend the less productive schools. That's because higher achieving schools always want the best teachers. They're willing to pay more to get and keep better teachers. Same with facilities and equipment. But that's what we're complaining about now. There will always be high priced private schools for the wealthy, but our goal needs to be, not to close under achieving schools. Our goal needs to be to do whatever it takes to make underachieving schools as good as the best. In America, the one school of thought that has always been successful is the school of thought that says, we can do it. I think we need to adhere to that school of thought and fix schools Whatever it takes as soon as we can. And that means we need to stop defunding public schools with vouchers. It may be true that more money alone won't make a school better. But I think I can assure you that less money certainly won't make a school better. Paying greater attention just might. So here's the question. How much schooling could a school district school school, if a school district school, did school?