Our public school systems are ripe for a similar disruption.
The current annual cost of public schooling per student averaged around $20,000. The average annual salary of a school teacher is around $50,000. What we get in return is a very poor product and generations of mostly uneducated children.
This is all based on an antiquated business model of shoving 30 or so (mostly unruly) kids into a classroom with harried, underpaid teachers and out of date textbooks.
There is really no need for all that infrastructure and overhead in public education. Cut all of that out and go to virtual schooling, where children can get a customized lesson plan scaled to their abilities. There's no reason why many children cannot graduate "high school" when they are still 12 or 13 years old. The slower learners can continue up until they are 18, then they are on their own.
Public school buildings? Who needs them? Sell them and convert them to condos. Principals, vice-principals, and other non-teaching faculty? Who needs them? They can become virtual teachers.
Virtual teachers can now be paid much more, in fact, they can be paid incentive bonuses for every student that they are able to accelerate to a high school diploma ahead of schedule. Students will get one-on-one sessions with their teachers but mostly they will be given challenging assignments that they can complete on their own and at their own speed. Their teachers are now more or less guiding them through their personal learning journey.
This will bring the cost per child way, way down.
Kids can still play sports and socialize with each other. Only it will be done outside the school system. "Little League" sports will thrive, as will social clubs such as scouting.
The above is only an outline of what can be done but my point is that public schools as we know them today are antiquated and obsolete dinosarus.
These are great ideas that could greatly reduce costs and improve quality of education. I don’t think the commies would ever go for this, but it would work.