None of this has happened because people in the government started out bad. It is because there is overwhelming evidence that if you set up a powerful organisation, bad people will do what they must to be in charge of it.

Unscrupulous, power hungry liars work just as hard as any of us. Possibly more so because the rewards of power are higher for someone who is willing to abuse it.

If the strategy is to centralise power, there is not a system nor a will in the world that can stop that power being abused. It is really just a matter of how long and how badly.

Even if power is decentralized nothing stops multiple power hungry evil individuals form taking over and abusing their offices. Look at the government, most of it if not all branches are corrupted. It’s true that if a Hitler type comes along they could do a lot more damage grabbing a centralized power system.

Public schools have sucked for more than half a century. The "let's throw out the bad" just never happens.

Terrible government services are hardly ever allowed to fail and disappear

Public schools are a perfect example of how neither money nor more government ever helps if the fundamental problems aren't fixed.

13 Baltimore City High Schools, Zero Students Proficient in Math:

https://archive.ph/VfciU

Baltimore is 2nd in per pupil spending:

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-05-21/news/bs-md-ci-ce...