Concepts for Education?

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What do you think about these concepts?

1. Abolish mandatory schooling. Kids who don't care should not waste taxpayer dollars.
2. Cut the number of teachers in half, but double their paycheck. This would drastically increase the quality of teachers, but drastically increase the size of classrooms. One of the reasons all your teachers are so stupid, is because they went to graduate school only to get a 30-50k paycheck.

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the point is not that they will, but that they OUGHT to.  Furthermore, we could get these salaries and obtain tangible improvements in education merely by diverting money from football, (or whatever sport or extracurricular you want to cut, but that's another debate) technology which you can't use intelligently until you're an adult anyway (computers for computer classes are an exception), and Teacher's Unions, and spending it on the teachers themselves.  This could conceivably be brought about without a raise in taxes.  But of course, what we OUGHT to do is to carry out education spending reform, and then spend that much more on it, once we have tangible results that we're putting our money in the right place-i.e. better performance and studies on young adult success.