My main points would be the following. Feel free to add your own.
Tracking. Students should be educated based on their skill level. Smart kids should be grouped together, motivated kids too, depending on their intelligence. Once you pass 8th grade, you are put on a college course or a vocational course.
Get rid of No child left behind. If you can't pass the 4th grade, you stay in the 4th grade until you can. If you make the results matter, your teachers will care more too.
Disobedience is no longer accepted. If you are nothing but a distraction, you are punished. If it continues, you are removed from school.
Increase vocational training. Trade skills like welding, cosmetics, construction, etc. will be highlighted.
Mandatory personal finance class your senior year.
Complete revamping of the curriculum. With everyone having a phone now, multiple choice questions should be done away with. Education will be focused on critical thinking questions, and how to apply different ideas and strategies to different situations.
Reducing paperwork for teachers. Teachers put in serious hours for not a lot of pay, for a whole host of reasons. It's high time we help them out. Most administrators should answer to the teachers versus the other way around. Administrators should be focused on doing the teacher's paperwork so that teachers can focus on the actual teaching. Teachers should not have to buy their own supplies for their students, it should come out of the administration's pocket. Teachers should not have to pay for their own training that is required by the administrators to continue teaching, that should come out of the administration's pocket, or the certification should be done away with.
School construction funding. This process should be fundamentally changed. Right now, it's almost easier to build a new school than it is to get a leaky roof replaced on an existing school. You just get a bond approved by the city, and you video children saying that you hate education if you don't vote to have your taxes raised. I really don't have a good solution for this, as you would have to fundamentally change the bond structure and the grandfather construction code laws that cause this to happen. But the current process jacks up the cost of education for issues that could be solved much more affordably, then you can designate the savings to go to your teaching staff.
College. College isn't the end goal for students anymore. Making them responsible citizens is. End government backed loans, and bring college back to a luxury for the talented and the rich. If jobs won't hire people without a college degree, the answer isn't to make college affordable to everyone, it's to revamp the HS curriculum to where it is valued again to graduate. College costs would fall as a result.
Tracking. Students should be educated based on their skill level. Smart kids should be grouped together, motivated kids too, depending on their intelligence. Once you pass 8th grade, you are put on a college course or a vocational course.
Get rid of No child left behind. If you can't pass the 4th grade, you stay in the 4th grade until you can. If you make the results matter, your teachers will care more too.
Disobedience is no longer accepted. If you are nothing but a distraction, you are punished. If it continues, you are removed from school.
Increase vocational training. Trade skills like welding, cosmetics, construction, etc. will be highlighted.
Mandatory personal finance class your senior year.
Complete revamping of the curriculum. With everyone having a phone now, multiple choice questions should be done away with. Education will be focused on critical thinking questions, and how to apply different ideas and strategies to different situations.
Reducing paperwork for teachers. Teachers put in serious hours for not a lot of pay, for a whole host of reasons. It's high time we help them out. Most administrators should answer to the teachers versus the other way around. Administrators should be focused on doing the teacher's paperwork so that teachers can focus on the actual teaching. Teachers should not have to buy their own supplies for their students, it should come out of the administration's pocket. Teachers should not have to pay for their own training that is required by the administrators to continue teaching, that should come out of the administration's pocket, or the certification should be done away with.
School construction funding. This process should be fundamentally changed. Right now, it's almost easier to build a new school than it is to get a leaky roof replaced on an existing school. You just get a bond approved by the city, and you video children saying that you hate education if you don't vote to have your taxes raised. I really don't have a good solution for this, as you would have to fundamentally change the bond structure and the grandfather construction code laws that cause this to happen. But the current process jacks up the cost of education for issues that could be solved much more affordably, then you can designate the savings to go to your teaching staff.
College. College isn't the end goal for students anymore. Making them responsible citizens is. End government backed loans, and bring college back to a luxury for the talented and the rich. If jobs won't hire people without a college degree, the answer isn't to make college affordable to everyone, it's to revamp the HS curriculum to where it is valued again to graduate. College costs would fall as a result.