colleague of mine at cornell university has written a wonderful book entitled "cutting schools, privatization, segregation, and the end of public education," and part of what she's arguing is that this move to privatization that is kind of bound up with the charter school movement has led to the very example that the t.m. landry school represents, a kind of depreciation, a degradation of education in this country, and so then you combine that with the kind of hypercompetitive nature of trying to get into elite schools like princeton, and you have folks just trying to game the system. so it's systemic, it's across the board, craig. >> one of the things i think that people have a hard time understanding is how it could be that students at this particular school, how they could get into the princetons and the harvards and the nyus, and the columbias, how they could get in, but according to a number of folks that "the times" talked to, how they could struggle so much at