School 1980-Present

I found this episode to be one of the most interesting so far, mostly because it dealt with a lot of issues that I had heard about before but didn't really understand like charter schools, independently funded schools, and specialty schools. I think that specialty schools are a very good idea, but my main issue with such schools is that students will be boxed in to what they are going to do in the future from the very get-go without having an opportunity to branch out and discover interests that they may not even have known that they had. I really liked the idea that charter schools are given an opportunity to succeed and are shut down if they do not meet up to expectations, but I was a little disturbed by the idea of what this would do to students attending the school at the time of this probationary period. Independently funded schools seemed like a really good idea in theory, but I think that such schools would be opening the majority of schools up to the same sort of rivalries and recruiting tactics that NFL football teams practice with their different owners and product funds. I think that all of these school ideas have potential to really help the US educational system, but I think that it would take a lot of legislation, boundaries and laws to make them totally feasible for the betterment of students nationwide.