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In my OPINION there is not a single answer, but several things do need to change:
* teacher pay should be performance based and not tenure based (the issue with that is what performance metrics are you going to use? Standardized testing? Amount of students that "pass" the class? Etc.)
* parents need to take back control of raising their kids, but that also means they have the DUTY to do so; they need to be parents of the kids and not friends with the kids. Parents need to toughen up their kids and the best way to do that is to not cut them slack. (Yes, this is a great thing to speak about but actually getting parents to do that is never going to happen, at least in this country. Homogenous countries that are a LOT smaller than the USA that place a huge emphasis on education and pay teachers at similar pay rates as that of lawyers and doctors are the countries who perform the best)
* school boards should focus on data and results, not hyperbole and "feelings" (What data and results? One can take a look at Japan and South Korea and their educational systems that generally operate off of this model. Suicides are way higher, also look at Japan and their weird porn and anime....stifling people isn't a good model either lol)
* keep the curriculums to core stuff, not fluff. The good old "three Rs" as it were, with some basic history and civics also (to a point, yes. most of the point of higher education is to create "well-rounded students and citizens", hence the Humanities and Social Science requirements for most degrees. We have technical degrees (AAS) that do still require some Gen Ed classes but the vast majority 75%+ of the degree are the technical classes)
* offer (but do not mandate) some life-skill courses like personal money management and credit development; kids won't learn this from parents who can't do it at home (disagree, mandate classes like personal finance, car loan APR, mortages, etc. whilst they're still in the K-12 school system. Offer classes like mechanical classes, trade classes, etc. We have students in our building trades program (the students actually build houses that realtors sell) that decide they want to jump into a 2-year program building a house and they've never touched a tape measure before, never used a nail gun before, etc.)
I'm gonna answer a couple of these