Comment: My AK daughter graduated from high school in 2002 with the NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT.  It changed the standards of testing that  that she had to do after her 11 years in public school  The tests showed my daughter and a lot of her classmates were uneducated, unprepared. 15 years later these "graduates" went to colleges, some Ivy league, got into West Point, found technical jobs in all fields, became doctors and nurses, pilots. I think they must have learned the basic ABC's, maybe that is all one needs.  The public school system is a dependable annual budget cut as well as being hammered on by the supporters of private school vouchers. They want the feds to give them 4-5 grand a year of public money to each  student and let the parent decide on how to "educate" the kid with no standards or accountability. I went ad graduated from a private school. Kids will get a voucher but private schools control admissions and cannot accommodate all who wish to attend. A voucher, can be useless.