Thank you for disagreeing in good faith and being a reasonable person. Wow.

There really aren't any good solutions, because the problems are much bigger than the schools. I honestly think a hybrid, localized approach is best. I love what you're doing in your area, sounds awesome. It wouldn't work everywhere. Some places like NYC have benefited from the addition of charters like Success, although that program only got good after a lawsuit ended their practice of mass expelling kids who wouldn't score well. It required checks and balances through a state apparatus, the judiciary. Other places need public investment because the tax base simply cannot afford quality schools and educators. If they're struggling that means they need help.

The dogma in these comments about ending public education and replacing it with market-based education is intellectually lazy and historically tonedeaf. If you think one political ideology is the unerringly correct approach to all of society's challenges, you're wrong. It's that simple.