[Groesbeck Hurricane]

Every district should be controlled at State level. Same choice of two or three books for every district in the state on a standard set of subjects. Every district receives the EXACT same funding per student.

State "hires" teachers, each district can select from the pool. All buildings receive funding in accordance to their age, new schools are built in accordance with replacing older schools.

Get rid of standardized testing, it does nothing. Get rid of special education. If they need it, send the student to a school designed only for the needs of special education. No special treatment.

Break the rules, get out. Oh, and no State or Federal aid for anyone who fails to complete a high school diploma or obtain a GED within one year of leaving school.

Add back art (makes people think), teach english, maths, science, PE, logic, stat, speach, ethics, and everyone learns at least one foreign language. Provide advanced classes for those who deserve and require it.

Don't like the public school system, go to private school. It is your choice not the Governments.

And I saw most private schools as jokes. Most in the area I grew up put out students who could barely perform on any specific level. I taught in one for a semester while between jobs. I had two students pass, all parents paid, so school gave ALL students straight A's. Oh, they were accredited.

I tought Algebra, Trig, Elementary Analysis, and Calculus. Yep, one student completed EA and Calc in one semester, passed and understood what she took. I helped one student pass basic maths, took him into my class so he could learn something. Did not know how to read (above about third grade level) or write but he learned how to do basic math (+-/*). I passed him, he worked hard and deserved it. Family paid so he was passed in every other course as well. Every other student rarely ever showed for class and when they did they were usually stoned.