What we haven't done is say ‘Okay, the worst 2% of all schools are all going to close on X date. Everyone who works at those schools will be fired.’ You want to see school standards skyrocket in a little while, that’ll do it. You can create a new school on the same site, but I guarantee that the reborn school will be at least twice as good as the one that closed.
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The UN is a much different beast; you don't even have to go far to find the corruption, you can ask anyone and they'll gleefully point to who the worst offenders are, where they have skimmed money and supplies, where they embezzle money and equipment. There's no mystery at all on that front. It wouldn't even take much more than a phone call to get a judge to okay a federal warrant to seize files.
All it really takes is the US government saying ‘No immunity for NGO members.’ Make that announcement, file the search warrants and flood the various UN offices seizing paperwork, all within an hour of the initial announcement and you'll catch MANY with their hands in the cookie jar.
Oh, and by the by, you can be sure in the midst of all of this, the UN itself would be crying to relocate outside the United States. How dare these people actually hold us accountable!
Do I much care if the UN exists or not? Absolutely. I very much care, it supports hundreds of corrupt regimes around the planet, giving them legitimacy and overturning national laws left and right in their ever expanding reach.
But before it gets destroyed, I want that paperwork, I want that evidence, in the hands of US prosecutors, and as many arrests as can be accomplished before they all flee our shores.
I guess we have different versions of courage. My courage is in taking on the enemy in their own grounds and kicking their rumps. Yours is simply trying to deny the enemy their grounds in the US. Both seem to be valid arguments, but I prefer the former.
Seizing the records in connection with prosecutions before throwing the UN out is an excellent idea.
The 2% solution won’t work for many reasons, not least of which is that the vast majority of teachers are incompetent by training to do their jobs. Math is a simple example...if they had to teach a real curriculum such as Saxon or Singapore, they wouldn’t be able to do it. They didn’t learn real arithmetic and algebra in school or college, and they don’t have the time or inclination to do the serious work required to get up to speed. I’ve had this conversation with math teachers who quit because “math education” in 95% of government schools doesn’t require real competence in math. In fact, administrators and faculty are hostile to teaching actual math. They flatter themselves by claiming, as the textbook publishing industry has told them, that they are teaching “higher level critical skills”. They wouldn’t deign to teach actual math, which they would deride as “drill and kill”, because, in reality, it’s too difficult for them.