When the public schools were established many years ago as a means for providing all children with a good basic education, there were few who doubted that this institution would ever be anything but a benefit to the taxpayers.
Today this premise has become questionable. The failure may lie in the very nature of the public school system, which is supported through compulsory taxation and makes no one, except increasingly powerless school boards, accountable to the taxpayers. That such a system should be open to abuse by special interest groups should come as a surprise to nobody. We now have a situation where school boards respond not to local citizens but to pressure from state departments of education, local and state teacher unions or a combination of all of these.
Download Our Public Schools Control Them If You Can-Solveig Eggerz-1973