Whilst I agree with the majority of your post. I do have the urge to add my tuppence worth...
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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl
The evidence is overwhelming. I doubt there is an American member here who has not lived in a city with a few "exceptional" public schools in wealthy neighborhoods, and middling-to-crappy school districts that seem to match land values in their areas.
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I wholeheartedly agree in the UK we have state schools which push up property prices, or vice versa.(in the UK a public school is a private school
a state school is what you would call a public school)
However cause and effect here are blurred and underachieving parents tend to have under achieving children (q.v. Darwin). So what tends to happen is that the govenrment tries to push children from these families (such as they have them) into the better quality schools to try and make everybody outside the ruling elite in their public (private) schools, of an equally poor standard of education.
The point I'm trying to make is that these schools aren't neccesarily bad because of their teachers, but more likeky because of their pupils.
How protecting them from the red pen helps in anyway I fail to see, except perhaps they won't feel so upset about being stupid.