Start over by having a completely **PRIVATE** system of K-12 schools!
Government schools **ARE** SOCIALISM! SOCIALISM CAN NEVER BE REFORMED!!!! GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS MUST BE SHUT DOWN COMPLETELY!!
As wintertime vociferously points out, the individual teachers are not the heart of the problem ... even the ones screwing the students. They are a symptom of the pathologies inherent in a government-run organization. For example, most teachers aren’t total fools: they would be teaching phonics and addition facts, if the system did not mandate less-functional forms of teaching.