Nate Duehr wrote: > In an awful lot of areas, no amount of "education reform" will help, > until the so-called adults/parents grow up and take responsibility for > their own local schools and school Board's actions. IMO this is the root cause for many things that go wrong in all kinds of public administrations: the lack of engagement of the affected public. IMO public /anything/ is mostly only inefficient as long as the "boss" is absent -- and the boss in this case is the affected public. Gerhard -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist