Originally Posted by TheDoc

That's a whole lot of crazy...

I've already stated that the unions are out of control and the entire system needs to be changed.

But coming out and attacking one of the strongest and largest unions would be political man slaughter for everyone involved. I agree they're jacked up as can be, but you can only take it one step at a time.

Schools shouldn't be telling kids how to dress, they're at the school to teach not judge. They shouldn't be making schools like a prison either, they shouldn't be teaching them in the structure they're teaching. Schools need to focus less on Sports and more on academics. Come to think of it, they need to do a lot.

And right now the States are the ones that control that and YOU (the parent) have the ability to make it change from the School level up to the State. Schools/States have the ability to limit who they feed/how that money is spent & discipline structures, the fed isn't forcing this. If you want these changes, you have to go out and get the people together that agree with you and push for them.

What you're asking for is Obama/The Gov to over take the entire education system, kick the States in the balls, scrap it and come up with something new. I'm 1000000000000000% sure you do not want that.


The correction I see is competition, some regulation would be nice (and happens) but the States hold the power. Free charters & private, paid, grants and so on competition with the Public school systems, forcing the States & Fed to compete by modifying how the Public Schools currently run.

The change has to come from within, not from above.