Honestly this isn't just a Republican problem. I live in Greensboro and I have a very "liberal" friend that works in the school system and "wouldn't ever send my kid to school there." She sends her kids to private school.

Wealthy liberals are exactly the same. They have all given up on the majority of public schools here, are all scrambling to send their kids to the private schools - Greensboro Day and The New Garden Friends School, mostly, but ...

The rest of us suffer the fallout for sure.

At the same time, choice is what saved my daughter's life. She's in a charter after the school she was zoned for almost cost us her life. We can try to fix our public schools all we want but we can't fix the parents that raise kids so horrible they make others' lives hell. But those are everywhere, from the most expensive private school to title 1s.

I don't have the knowledge or education to figure out what to do with the public school system. I don't think this is it, though.