Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
>> And I don't think pouring more money in a system that's inefficient is a
>> good idea anyway.
>
> There's another question... how do you measure the efficiency of a school?
> By student satisfaction? Parent satisfaction? Results of some form of
> standardized test? Differential (out/in or out-in) of such test results?
> Average or median earnings of students after they left school? Average or
> median life satisfaction of ex-students?
>
> These all probably yield (completely) different results. And there 
> probably
> are many other possible criteria. When talking about efficiency, you need
> to have a pretty good idea what it means.

It's a great question, but how about we let the market decide what it means?
(I know this statement will scare many people. :) )

We can debate to death the different ways to measure efficiency. However, 
*how* you measure efficiency is not important for this discussion.

We can let the parents decide. Or the local school board. Or the state 
government. Or even the federal government. The private schools will 
outperform public schools in spite of the regulation.

Give the choice back to the people. :)

Vitaliy 

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