Gunner wrote:

Psst..no big government control. Government mandated Standards. The
state and local systems must meet those standards (as they do now) to
be accredited. Someone has to set a national standard that each state
and local government must meet. Including teacher quality standards.

Or what? What is it about this grand plan of mandating "FEDERAL"
standards that will make teachers want to show up? Mandating standards
is less than half the process, way less. You need to supply a system
that will implement the standards or they won't happen. There is no
magic.

Post a speed limit, with out enforcement it is a joke. Post educational
standards with out providing for implementation is an equivalent joke.

You can't select portions of each HS class, or walk into businesses and
arrest employees, clap them in irons, drag them off to college and tell
them they "will be teachers or be executed!" Teaching is a voluntary
activity. Demanding good education, or else, with out providing for
meeting the demand is not a rational plan.

Fitch