Once upon a time in America, people hired teachers to educate their children and paid the teachers directly; and children were far better educated than they are today. Today, there are so many middle men (politicians, foundations, vendors, lobbyists, government contractors, abortionists, school construction companies, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, counselers, psychologists, security officers. political activists, government employee unions, computer salesmen, book publishers, and so on and so on) that very little money that goes toward education is actually used to educate children; and the result is, our children on average, are dumber than door posts; and so are their parents