is open a grades 1-12 school system and throw out all of the bullshit and feel good stuff and have a we're here to teach and if you don't want to learn then go someplace else attitude. If you act up you will be punished and it you continue to act up you will be sent somewhere else. This doesn't mean that kids can't be kids but it does mean that poor behavior won't be tolerated.
This would include a good course in civics.
Blow the current system out of the water by teaching the things that matter. We don't need the drag queens, gender benders or socialists. We need the 3 Rs, STEM, history, civics, a shop class or two, and in general useful skills to be taught.
It would not take too many places doing this before many of the current school systems would be forced to change from being a baby sitting service to a place to get an education.
When I think of what I read about the Baltimore school where nobody passed the state math test it makes me wonder why even bother having the schools to begin with.
I read where someplace did something like this and it was actually business based. Business attire was required as was business grooming. They held fast on that. Visible ink got you sent back the the rank and file school. (WTF is a high school kid doing getting inked at that age to begin with?)
They also held fast on grades and conduct. You had to work and behave to stay there. The brightest kids were not held back.
The parents who sent their kids to it seemed to like it and as to be expected, the parents that thought their little snowflake should be exempt from the rules tried to tear it down which is typical.
Personally as a kid I would not want to have been sent there because I'm not business oriented. I'm an outside worker in nature and can't stand being cooped up. A career in an office would have found me dead and buried in my 20s, likely by my own hand.
Still, it seemed to be doing kids a good job at getting an education.
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