In the 60's, the Supreme Court heard a case on education in which, i believe Chicago (a major metropolis) tried to institute paying Catholic school teachers because the city feared the collapse of that system would bring too many students into the public system to handle. The Church sued, fearing oversight (gee, who would have guessed the Catholic hierarchy would be against oversight). Now, with crumbling economic structure to support pubic education; and with the growth of disjointed from reality people wanting to indoctrinate rather than educate - schools find themselves on the cusp of great challenges in order to survive and help produce an educated class. Fels like a failing proposition.