Lean Production: Inside the war on public education

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24. Perhaps referring to a 'field of work' as an industry is a shortcut...

...that educators find objectionable. I'm not trying to offend anyone by referring to it as an industry and I apologize for being too lazy to look up the proper spelling of Khan.

I agree with much of what you're saying, but in my own personal experience; my children did not receive the quality of education that I did.

Granted, I sent my children to school in Louisiana and Arkansas and I went to school in Idaho; so we aren't comparing apples and apples.

I said that it is the Khan academy's 'model' is what I was impressed with. I'm familiar with how the loss leader model works and I agree that educators can do at least as good a job at preparing the material - and they should be doing it as a time saving measure (the issue I have is: why aren't they?).

I don't want to see charter schools take over either. There are civil services that have been taken over by the private sector, and in a lot of cases even though the service to the customer is not reduced; the employees benefits are reduced. Over time it gets to a point where it is too difficult to return the service to the government. It is not a path that I would like to see our education system follow.

However, in my personal experience, the system is not working as well as it could. It isn't some study that I read; it is my personal experience with the teachers of my children and the principals, and the other professionals in the system. As I said before; they tend to circle the wagons rather than address problems. Its understandable; they spend a lot of time together. I expect that they're friends, but in the end; I believe it effects the quality of education that our children receive.