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Ah yes, let’s do away with schools altogether because they could stand some improvement here and there, so the next generation is completely dysfunctional from the get go and society collapses a few decades earlier
Schools are completely worthless, we need to reinvision them from the start, we're just using them as shitty daycare right now.
Just to start with we desperately need federalized school management, a bunch of barely literate parents shouldn't be the ones deciding what their kids learn, that's why the schools I went to in the south were very delicate when it came to history during the Civil war or science, really in general.
Beyond this we need a university board to step in with expectations on what a child should know before college, and everyone should build a curriculum backwards through the grades to fulfill them. These expectations should be raised over time.
But we don't want that, we want a daycare and political football/voting bloc because the people running the schools are generally the idiots produced by it.
Not an american so I don’t share your view on the educational system, but suffice it to say that yours barely qualifies as one from my view.
Wife is swedish, they have a functional system, the nordics are great at all the civil aspects of society.
There are decent schools in the US, but they are few and far between, only rich districts with the high property values needed to fund schools are able to sustain a reasonable standard.