[Pining_4_TX]

The worst thing that ever happened to the US was government involvement in education. Everything government touches fails. The only solution is to privatize education at all levels, then parents and adult students will have real choice and there will finally be some progress in education. Public schools still do things the way they were done in horse and buggy days.

The problem is that people use schools as a place to house the kiddies while they are at work. There is no reason for a basic education to take 12 years. Most of what happens in schools is mind-numbing busywork. All students should be able to proceed at their own pace without having to march lockstep with a group of 30 that all happen to be born the same year.

[TheNext]

There is no reason for a basic education to take 12 years.

WOW! You have the Post of the Week!

It's amazing how many people do not 'get it'. Home school takes 4 years less. Technology driven likely 6 to 8 years less.

... march lockstep with a group of 30 that all happen to be born the same year.

You get it. You understand. Where else in society is everybody the same age? No place.

Your children are being RAISED STUPID! Nobody will save them but only you.

It is a competition for other's loot. Parents will always get junk education. Government always fails. Once you grasp that, life makes sense.

Public school is "neighbor subsidized baby sitting" demanded mostly by liberal women. It is the modern harem.

[magna carta]

In Houston at least, privatizing will be relinquishing control to such as the Greater Houston Partnership. I will not bore you with their extensive resume in open borders George Soros-type initiatives but suffice it to say that parallel societies in this large city includes every muslim nation on the planet and they need many services to platform them on the public dime. GHP is involved. Much much more...so unfortunately ‘privatizing” may not go in the direction you were thinking.