Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by JumpCrisscross 16 days ago
> because parents aren't doing their part to ensure their kids are learning?

Someone isn’t doing their job. And we can’t fire the parents. Tackling teachers’ unions seems like a necessary difficult step if we want to take this seriously. Alternatively: we keep letting public education deteriorate until so much of the population opts out of it that killing it outright becomes politically possible.