self-serving agendas and interests that hinders quality education to exist, and devalues a public educations with purpose of to serve the needs of the adults. In the last few lines of the essay, "By any reasonable measure, America's monopolistic, bureaucratic, over-regulated system of public schools is woefully unprepared to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century. Political, business, and education leaders continue to talk about "reforming" the current public education system. They should, instead, be discussing how to replace it." The comments in the G/M article is voicing the same points in the essay, The Failure of American Public Education. Where retired educators are hired at Home Depot, and than proceed to insult the customers, questioning their own math procedures, and than explain that customers no longer know how to figure out square footage, or read the labels of products or determined their own needs and requirements, Yet, the customers do not see it as being insulting, and those that do, get a proper dressing down from the sales clerks. At least with private education, the users are allow to question their expertise, but not within the public education system. It is why the users of the private system have more value than the users of the public education system, and as a result, higher achievement for the private schools. 1) Although they probably spend enough, there is a serious maldistribution of the financial resources so that those with the most need get the least and vice versa. 2) Americans