It is time to NATIONALIZE the schools!

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6. it's not just the $

My city schools spend more $/student than suburbs and it doesn't help and they both spend more than many of the private schools. I have friends who who teach in the many different school districts and they ALL hate the requirements that come with federal funds. The federal requirements treat all schools the same, but they are not the same. There are different issues. What looks like success in one is not the same as another and the federal requirements don't consider nearly enough of the differences. The long term goal should be to change things so that they all succeed equally, but I don't see a way for that to happen through nationalizing the schools.

I think the best way is to give school districts more independence. They need support too ($ and other). And there should be oversight. But even if the feds disagree with their plan they should not automatically lose funding. We have a couple of school boards who should probably be in jail, but most of them understand their community and schools much better than the feds and are making progress by finding ways around federal requirements rather than following them.