Public education as it exists today is economically unsound and patently unfair. Schools offer contracts for services to youths, but students have no legal way of enforcing the obligation. In even the relatively modest school districts, teachers report to principals who report to area directors who report to assistant superintendents who report to associate superintendents who eventually report to the superintendents who are solely responsible to the boards of education. Each level above the pedestrian classroom teacher is insulated from students. Every educator position above the teacher level in the system is political.
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Quality of the product that reaches the consumer is of small concern to middle management in educational enterprises. Managers are never partners in concerns which are without entrepreneurs. Educators are men of means, not of ends, and the means at their disposal are collectivism, centralization, and compulsion. The story is told that at the moment of Fredric Bastiat's passing he whispered something. At the time of the original publication, Mr. Colvard taught at Clairemont High School in San Diego.