I believe with the coming of the smart phone and ipad we are technologically capable of getting rid of the public school system. However, expect the fight of your life if you actually want to do that, because the bureaucracy will be fighting for its life. If not for indoctrination, for the simple fact that their pensions and retirements are a ponzi just like everything else, and require a constant inflow of new teachers to pay for the retirements of the old.
Absolutely. The education establishment stopped being about teaching decades ago. It’s a self-licking ice cream cone these days...
The law was passed early this year IIRC. We have large GOP majorities in the House and Senate, and our Governor, Rick Scott is serving in his first political office.
Anyway, the statist teachers union screeched and banged their heads over the change, for they know it is the camel's nose under their comfy tent flap. The old model of education is inceasingly anachronistic.