How about decentralized public schools, and the teachers and curriculum need to be approved by the local community?

Well

yeah, but that will never happen

which was kinda my point

I kind of went to that

It was a charter school

the left can't stand that, it's really funny in a way

Again I am skeptical of decentralization. My city and locale is just as nuts, if not moreso, than the centralized system.

Which brings me to my point of, I dont see the US lasting another generation

nah decentralization is the way to go

Also charter schools are damaging funding for public schools. Which is a problem if you can't afford a charter school.

@EnderOctanuslol wut?

i'm not very optimistic either, but you never know what will happen @Fitzydog

They usually operate at a lower cost than the public schools

I come from a long line of soldiers and teachers. Fairly well versed on the subject.

How low the operating cost is doesn't matter if you don't go there.

Thomas Sowell speaks highly of charter schools

It's not free, yet the government mandates that all children must attend school.

They're usually under their budget, unlike the other ones

Which frankly is BS

"No child left behind" is a disaster.

public schools are bad in general

we learned the same thing in every grade

Well yeah but if the government would let them run at the state level it would be so much better. Get those dumb ass policies out.

If a kid won't learn, kick them out.

if you say stuff like that, people will act as though you shot their grandma

leftists are really emotional about any sort of change in that direction

The charter schools here, are an offshoot of a single district, and they're funded with the per-student amount that their home district would have gotten, but it's diverted to the charter school

Too bad.

And yes, that's how it works everywhere

That seems much better, I don't see the problem

Issue is when poor neighborhoods have the state put many of their students in charter schools, taking the funding with them.

Suddenly you can hardly afford textbooks let alone pay the teachers fairly

how much good would it do if we just got rid of teachers unions?

Bad idea.

That sounds like a budgeting problem, not a charter school problem

Fuck teachers unions

Teachers are one of the most important professions because they groom the future. But get paid shit.

My uncle just retired early because of that

Privatize all this shit

they don't get paid shit really, but yeah i'm with Fitz, most of this shit would be better privatized