What if those making education decisions for public schools, had to be public school grads??

[LWolf]

35. You're kind of all over the map there.

To answer your last statement first: I don't think I said that it should be "just" public school teachers setting the rules. As a matter of fact, the example I gave you directly contradicts that statement.

If you want to play with analogies...here's what I think.

I think it should be doctors, not insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies, that decide what kind of care patients get, and when. I think they should have a majority place at the table when setting the "rules" for medical care. Because yes...lives are on the line.

Military policy? As long as military policy complies with basic agreements about human rights, for example how they treat their own, how they treat the women among them, and adherence to the Geneva Conventions, I have no problem with the military deciding on military policy. That's a red herring, though. The real issue is deciding on how and when to intervene in global situations with our military, which is not military policy. That's what the politicians do, and they don't do it well. No matter who is at the top of that chain, it should be an inviolable law that our military is never used except as a final resort to defend our home. You know. The department of DEFENSE. Major stakeholders in the MIC aren't troops; they're those industrial giants at the top profiting obscenely from perpetual military action all over the globe. They should have ZERO influence on "the rules" and the distribution of resources when it comes to our military.

Just as the private political/corporate "foundations" working to privatize our public education system so that they can tap into the public monies spent on it by directing "reform" polices across the nation should have ZERO place at the table.