Why pull the trigger if the gun shoots blanks?

Parent trigger laws seem like a great idea to me, but why have it if it never succeeds.  Seems like all of the attempts have been blocked by hostile judges.

Here in Colorado, a parent trigger law was killed before it got to the full legislature because no one trusts parents.  Opponents of school choice tell us to trust the very system that is failing us and wasting money on "turnaround projects."  

Unfortunately, I have little confidence that if Colorado passed the law that it would have ever been allowed to go into effect.  It's as if the system is trying to create a sense of learned helplessness in parents.  Give them some hope then take it away.  It's really cruel. 

$8 million could fund a new charter school building

But instead Pueblo City Schools has spent $8 million on consultants to try to improve their schools.  Unfortunately, it hasn't worked.

So, why is it so bad that charter schools waste money or even that they sometimes provide profits to management companies?  Are consultants somehow not for profit?

Seems a bit duplicitous to me for critics of charter schools to complain about charter school waste and then this goes on.

Perhaps another comparison is that $8 million would have funded an entire charter school of about 400 students for the 3 years that this funding covered.