[Ev Reeman]

Here are the things necessary to save US Public Schools:

1. Break the unions that have a stranglehold on any educational progress for students

2. Engage accountability at all levels of education

3. Get the federal government out of education forever

4. Better textbooks that do not whitewash or revise our nation’s history in any way: textbooks need to tell the whole truth as well as instruct

5. Expand the school year

6. Eliminate the massive bureaucracy of education

7. More tests to determine strengths as well as failings for both students and teachers

8. Hold teachers as well as administration svvountable for failure; pay good teachers more and get rid of non performing teachers

9. Concentrate on the basics: reading, writing and arithmatic

[ALPAPilot]

Here are the things necessary to save US Public Schools:

There is no saving public schools. Single payer has never worked in the past, it doesn't work now and will never work. It's just basic economics based in human nature. There are two necessary elements to successful education of children.

1. Fathers must raise their children.

2. Parents must pay for their children's education.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

9. Concentrate on the basics: reading, writing and arithmetic

The problem is that they say that is what they are doing. But they use a system that is so convoluted and confusing that the children mostly are unable to learn.

[fml]

nix #5 and I agree