EFM Roy Roberts Steps Down...

[Detroitnerd]

What's wrong with socializing the cost of handling most difficult students? Let the private sector do most of the work. They can innovate where innovation is most valuable and public schools can't. And let society pay the cost for 'problem' students.

That's what I'm saying. Privatize the profit; socialize the loss. Saddle the government with the job that is inherently unprofitable. Then, for the students who are easier to teach, set up a variety of levels where you can take profits out. It's not just legalized graft, right? They have to innovate.

For instance, perhaps one company owns the land the school is on. They have to be paid.

Similarly, maybe another company owns the school building itself. They have to be paid.

Or how about another company contracted to take care of janitorial services? They have to be paid too.

Then you can have another company entirely run the school administration. They have to be paid.

But why not have them contract with another company to do the hiring? That company will have to be paid as well.

By the time we've "innovated" a six-tiered system of contractors -- all pulling in profits at the expense of the students and the teachers and staffers and their unions -- maybe there will be some change leftover to lock the kids in a room with a TV for six hours a day.

And if anybody wants to complain about the clusterfuck the school is, there are six different companies all pointing at each other, saying they'd love to provide more quality education, but you need to see so-and-so at Educorp. Or Autolearn. Or Scorepro. And so on.

Now, that would be truly innovative, wouldn't it?