There should be private schools that cater to every type of individual need better than the government "equality" school.

SHOULD be? What are you going to do, mandate the running of schools to cater to ever "need"? If not, the public schools will be left to take up the slack because it takes a lot more MONEY to provide education to special needs kids, money which the "voucher" system will not provide, and the parents cannot. Thus, no private schools will arise to fill this need, and it will fall back on the public schools.

But it will be public schools with all of the best and easiest-to-educate kids skimmed off. These are the kids who cost less to educate, and thus the "extra" money having them in the mix would bring will be gone. These kids will fall through the cracks, then, and not get educated at all, or if at all, it will be in spite of the falling-apart, grossly underfunded schools you seem happy to let them suffer with.

No, MAV, I am forced to conclude that your wide-eyed elitism isn't the answer, and will only make a bad situation much, much worse.

So far you have yet to convince me otherwise.

Alex