Cut the administrative overhead, cut a lot of the federal requirements that drive up costs and put that money into classrooms directly.

This is the stuff that advocates for vouchers and private schools have been saying for years. It’s impossible to change things in public schools due to the channels involved.

Private schools, on the other hand, can operate and adapt much more efficiently. My kids go to one. They love it, we love it, their teachers are happy and well respected. Because by sending our kids to that school we made a choice. We evaluated our options and decided this was the best place for them.

When kids are forced into a school due to zoning or because their parents can’t afford either a private or home school option, or moving to a house with different options, the parents have no recourse but to grumble about everything that they don’t like. It wasn’t their decision.

Is money part of the problem? Sure. But it’s not just the teacher pay it’s the money for options that parents can choose.

So much of this goes away if a school can simply tell an unhappy parent, “Maybe this isn’t the best school for your family?”

When parents make a choice themselves, they own it.