We need changes on a lot of levels but...

...we need to un-do 30 years of class warfare that George Bush I started in calling people with education "elitists"... That started the erosion and now we have an entire generation of "epsilons" who are not only uneducated but damned proud of it!!!

That is the largest step that needs to be made...

Then we need to quit BSing about how much we spend on education and how public schools suck... Many suck because we are taking the oney we used to spend on public education and splitting it between charter schools, vouchers and public schools...

Next, we have to get away from all the testing!!! We're testing kids way too much and it's all "rote" memory crap.... Heck, a monkey can learn "rote" memory stuff... No, we've got to get back to a curriculum that fosters critical thinking and creativity or we will "lose the future" big time>

B~ (2 years 5-6 combination teacher)
   (4 years GED jail house teacher)