Really? Parents don't care?
Then why are there lines around the block for lotteries for the few available seats at charter and voucher schools?
Did you see John Stossel’s program last week? 5,000 parents showed up for a lottery for a handful of seats at charter school.
Yes, really, WT, parents don’t care. A few parents care, once in a while, for special occasions, and a few of those parents even follow up, long term, but, basically, parents don’t care about public school quality. If they did care, they’d push their kids into the immigrant-kid-filled after-school academic tutoring shops, or they’d move to better school districts, or they’d force their kids into nerdy private and parochial schools. And, no, I didn’t see John Stossel’s program last week. I don’t watch television for news. I can read, or skim, so much faster than John Stossel can talk, so it’s much more efficient to get my news from the net or the papers.