Maastricht Treaty revisions needed?

[ShadowHM]

If the local school had to earn my loyalty (and dollars), I would be much more involved in ensuring it provided a quality education for my children.

I am a bit stunned by this comment. I live in a place where there is a government mandated curriculum that must be followed by all schools, public and private. I get the public school for free, so my husband and I decided that the extra dollars we saved by having such a system were best spent in ensuring that the public system did, in fact, provide the quality education we wanted. I have been extremely active, over the years, in the parent council for the schools and in doing volunteer work within the schools that my children have attended.

Your statement implies that, since your public system was free, you have declined to spend energy to work with those who deliver the education. (Maybe you think that if you only pay up with tax dollars you don't get to have input?)

But, again, I don't have a problem with the government leading, and setting standards for what constitutes a basic education, however, they do an abysmal job at creating efficient systems with high quality outputs.

I am sorry to hear that your jurisdiction has failed you. However, please don't presume to draw conclusions about all jurisdictions from your own (apparently) limited experience.

<---goes back to lurking and learning