Definition of a Bureaucracy

Test scores for K-12 education have increased slightly over the past 60 years.  Costs have quadrupled.  This  is the very definition of a bureaucracy.  At least, the unkind definition.  This is a negative return on our investment in our children, our future, as politicians love to drool over.  The bureaucratic monolith that is education in this country merely throws money at the problem to perpetuate its own existence.  I am intimately aware of how the money is spent in education locally.  Hundreds of six-figure salaries for the county in which I reside, hundreds of post-graduate and doctoral degrees, and little to show for it.  Teachers receive more training than any other private organization of which I am aware.  Teachers are also the single most important factor in student achievement.  But the teachers and administrators are there not to educate, but to perpetuate the educational system.  Pass or fail, the cost is payed by the taxpayers, now and when  the students cannot compete in or understand the world.