Warren Buffett confided to Michelle Rhee that it would be easy to fix public education in America in two quick steps. First, you simply would have to make private schools illegal. Then you would have to devise a lottery system where public schools would be matched randomly with every child.
Suddenly, wealthy politicians and CEOs could not just pick and choose which elite private school their child would attend. Could you imagine a Kennedy or Busch or the Obama children attending an inner city school? As Rhee states, if this happened you would see the quickest reforms and funding in public education.
Of course, this would never happen. But it's interesting to at least imagine what such a fix would be like.
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This is exactly the way to fix a lot of things - Social Security, Medicare, Health Care to nme three. But the elite "ruling class" sets themselves apart and doesn't worry about the insects beneath them.
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