Oh...please...don’t talk logic!
Time for the "I have a Dream..." speech.
Seriously though, I know that the government run school system is a sacred cow - but if we just got the government out of the schools we'd improve the product. The consumers would talk with their wallets. Good teachers would get rewarded, students that wanted to learn would be in schools with other students who wanted to learn.
Other ancillary benefits: In California we spend $38 Billion a year on the K-12 school system. Cut that out of the budget, and we could zero out the property taxes -- so that people could really own their property and not be serfs to the state (i.e, obliged to the state to pay taxes or lose their homes)...