Just as doctors withdrew Washington’s blood, our public schools are being bled dry, by for-profit charter schools, on-line virtual schools, some (supposedly) non-profit charter schools, massive investments in educational technology, and an expanded bureaucracy of people hired to watch over teachers to make sure they hew to the standardized curriculum.
In Washington’s case, we know that his doctors–at minimum–hastened his death. They may have killed him. Will today’s ‘education doctors’ kill public education? That’s an open question.