This third book in the Rethinking Education trilogy argues that schools have morphed into de facto community centers, in which the activities that students find fun have largely displaced the learning that taxpayers find necessary for protecting their rights.

The book ties together the Bare Minimum Book trilogy on education reform:

• Rethinking Fairness in Education,

• Rethinking Funding in Education, and

• Rethinking Fun in Education

While the details of school funding differ from state to state, there is no state in America where school taxes are used to pay for results, rather than for attendance, good intentions, and instruction, in that order. 

This is not a coincidence.