[fintstone]

Bad teachers, bad administrators, bad curriculum..all should be disposed of...but currently there is no way to identify any of them unless they are teachers caught sleeping with students. School systems in the US are designed that way (the NEA sees to it) and colleges are similar (tenure). poor grades, test scores are easily explained away as the parent's fault. Once again, if schools had to compete with other govt and private schools for funds...things would change. As a monopoly, it is in their best interest to maintain stus quo. Of course that is why the liberals are so against a voucher system.