Maybe we could have dinner at Red Lobster. When businesses fail, they leave. Schools can t do that. Finally, education is mandatory, not a matter of choice, for our children. Asking Edison to run the schools is born of a frustration in reforming them.
Frustration is understandable and reform is difficult.
Even President Bush s federal involvement in the improvement of public education, which is very welcome and necessary, is going to be controversial. But making schools a business is a bad idea. Recall that moment when you are standing by the airport baggage claim, everyone else has left, the luggage has stopped moving around, and it is clear that the people who fly planes for a profit have lost your bag. The company running the school might lose your kid. He taught for many years in New York state public schools.