Discipline, discipline, the lack of it is the single largest factor in our Public School's decline. Intergration came in and discipline went out. In the South, if a white teacher tried to discipline a black student the teacher was either beat to a pulp by racist blacks or accused of racism and fired. As a result, discipline left the schools and the students took over. In the remaining predominately white schools discipline remained and the students excelled while the more intergrated schools went to hell. I saw it, I lived through the sorry excuse of intergration. No amount of money will fix that, it's not a money problem. Oh, it's not an intergration problem either, it's a Black Racist problem.