i also like to whinge about the state of our schools so i will share my autistic opinion: the issue isn't "school choice" in and of itself. modern public schools in the US work like they do by design, which are to be indoctrination centers for a tragic, atomized humanity that do their level best to never, ever rock the boat. parents generally only engage in education matters when they're pissed off about something... like letting little boys into the little girls' restrooms. the main and largely only incentive that the administrative fiefdoms have is to keep things from becoming so bad that the state takes over, so they only care about rigging test scores and "stopping all violence", including retaliations - bullying, fistfights, etc; the firearm question is largely out of their hands.
changing
literally fucking anything in a school is disincentivized because the only other feedback these utterly joyless fucklords have on their jobs is 'parent approval rating'. even something as simple as "let's buy new chairs for the kids" can turn into a firestorm because some codger whose sex drive is a cloud of dust might go "the old chairs are perfectly fine why are we spending money on that and not on [my pet project]!?!" school administrators are disincentivized from touching anything except their own paycheck, which is definitely safe to touch because nobody thinks about that on a daily basis. surprisingly, people who control the budget are way more interested in their own paychecks than someone else's.
furthermore, Teacher's Unions and the Department of Education: both are literally aspects of the fucking devil. raising pay for one group of teachers makes all the other teachers and
their unions unhappy because it wasn't raised
collectively. and if you do raise it for everyone collectively, then the people legitimately busting their asses (i.e. the teachers who are in poorer school districts) will get pissed.
and all that aside, apparently only the military schools/camps can flawlessly implement the most peerless structure, organization and atmosphere conducive for learning. there's a set schedule, you're fed very well, you have study times to review in areas with no distractions, and you still have free time to yourself. it's all the shit that smart people have been talking about for decades for public schools & colleges but lol getting school administrators to change anything, ever, except their own salaries upward, is impossible. getting that done would require a level of finesse and eloquence only seen in the most Machiavellian of politicians.
anyway my point is the Department of Education should be abolished.
