I have a suggestion for education: The 12th grade will be spent learning a work skill. Every student. Then they can work their way through college, if they want to go. If they decide not to attend college, they will already have a skill for earning a living. Wouldn’t that be a step in the right direction?
No. Stop funding education with federal dollars would be a step in the right direction. You can try whatever scheme you want locally and if it fails or succeeds we will all hear about it.
Bring back shop class, auto repair classes, home economics. The kids will get more mileage out of that than the social justice classes now taught as civics in some schools.