How Should We Run Federal Education?

Federal Education is so broken, i want to gag. If you haven't seen Waiting for Superman already then please do yourself a favor. 


The real problem with education is the unions causing massive bureaucratic slowdowns, financial waste and poor results.

FACTS:

1.  Kids are not broken, education is broken - If education got BETTER, kids would learn more, and we would have less hunger, less outsourcing, and less debt and anger in the world.
2. Unions do nothing except waste money - They say that they're protecting teachers and protecting the youth, but its a ponzi scheme. do you remember Bernie Madoff? He told tons of people: "if you give me a ton of money, i'll make your life better".... then he spent it on houses and jewelry for his wife. The teachers union is the exact same. They say "TEACHERS... give us money and we'll protect your job and make it better" except they're just keeping the money for themselves, and stalling innovation in schools.
3. Innovation In Schools Is Possible - When I talk about innovation in schools, i'm talking about teachers being better at helping students learn. I'm not talking about replacing teachers with robots, unless your child actually would learn better being taught by a robot. Doesn't that sound possible? Theres no reason to out-rule anything and we should let people decide for themselves. Think about how quickly facebook helped people connect with eachother... immediately it became easy to talk to any person you've ever talked to before in your life. You can see who's friends with who, married to who, who's got kids, YOU GET MY POINT THAT FACEBOOK HELPS US NETWORK? Technology can also EASILY help us EDUCATE. 
1. Why do tests and learning have to be separated? Why can't we continually learn and test at the same time? For example, your english teacher should be grading your history and civics essays. They can use software to to automatically help them find the blatant errors and correct them. Then still let them re-read and fix. 
2. Math is being taught as though were still living in the fifties. People live on computers, we don't need to learn long-division anymore because we don't have to do it. Back when we didn't have computers, we NEEDED to learn long division, right now we don't need to learn it.
4. WHAT THE FUCK? DOES THIS MAKE SENSE? 
1. no more waste
2. no more rejecting innovation
3. no more unions because they exist for themselves and not students. 

If a politician is talking about more spending towards education, they're fucked up. 

If a politician isn't talking about getting rid of unions, they're fucking stupid.