Lets face it, public schools are made of total fail, and we spend more on education than the entire budgets of some countries. Lets stop the massive fail and get some real solutions like Educational Freedom/School Choice.
The problem with the "Finland Fellator" posting here is that Finland's model can't be exported to the USA. The problem is that in the USA, teachers and administrators in the public school system just won't educate children. The teachers and administrators just like to collect their paychecks and benefits off the sweat rolling off the ballsacks of the taxpayers. They aren't held to any rational standard of evaluation, since children are rolling off their production line in various states of being unable to read, calculate and overall THINK in any critical fashion.
Since the public school system in the USA is definably broken while still operating on a daily basis, the only sensible and sane answer is to force it to compete. If we open the school systems to competitive bidding, then the paycheck-collectors currently staffing the public schools will at least have to accept lower compensation. After all, if the children won't be educated by these worthless professionals, then we may as well just have this mis-education happen for a lower cost.
Now, let's hear more of:
DERP DERP DERP FINLAND DERP DERP DERP MODEL DERP DERP DERP