How 'bout we fix what we have today instead of jumping off it entirely in favor of an extreme solution that's not practical with most people's lives?
What we need to do is make public schooling local again. Hire people from within the community. Hold those people directly accountable by the community. Abolish the DoE. Ensure every parent has school choice to send their kids to any school they wish that they can physically get them to.
Public schools, at their core, are a group of parents in the area who've worked together to hire some teachers to teach their kids collectively. This has the benefit of teaching kids while the parents are off doing other things, but a major advantage is that it's able to teach kids things the parents cannot, while the children can still learn from the parents the things the teacher does not teach.
It's only through the increasing number of layers of separation between the parents and the teachers that we get problems. We need to remove these. While we won't likely get back to it, we should strive for a system where parents hire teachers directly.
How 'bout we fix what we have today instead of jumping off it entirely in favor of an extreme solution that's not practical with most people's lives?
What we need to do is make public schooling local again. Hire people from within the community. Hold those people directly accountable by the community. Abolish the DoE. Ensure every parent has school choice to send their kids to any school they wish that they can physically get them to.
Public schools, at their core, are a group of parents in the area who've worked together to hire some teachers to teach their kids collectively. This has the benefit of teaching kids while the parents are off doing other things, but a major advantage is that it's able to teach kids things the parents cannot, while the children can still learn from the parents the things the teacher does not teach.
It's only through the increasing number of layers of separation between the parents and the teachers that we get problems. We need to remove these. While we won't likely get back to it, we should strive for a system where parents hire teachers directly.