How can we change the public school system?

There is no one size fits all strategy.

Go get your degree in education and then come talk to us.

We should start off by throwing out the grades. Right now kids are taught to care more about the grades they get rather than the concept. They learn to pass the test and then lose the information. They should instead work toward mastering the concept. Teachers should teach students to think for themselves rather that rote learning. Curriculum should offer a broad view of the world and and not focus solely on academics. Curriculum should be developmentry based on intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development. Students should be taught how to think clearly, do research, and examine themselves in writing. Learning through field experience, volunteering, and internships should be a focus in high school.

This is the Montessori model. It is a wonderful approach to education.

I think grade progression should go as quickly or as slowly as the child needs, not one grade per year. Let the smart kids advance through the grades more quickly and let the slow kids have extra time. Move them up a grade as soon as they've shown their ready.

Also, to get the kids interested in learning, give them more freedom to study the things they're interested in. This way they'll growing seeing learning as fun, rather than tedious.

Get rid of the unions so you can pay more to the good teachers and fire the bad ones.

Stop with the touchy feelly crap and start educating people. Put them in classes according to their ability INSTEAD OF COLOR COORDINATING. If they can learn the material, fine, but not "Because we need more minorities in advanced classes!!!"

Fine. Don't listen to someone that went to school when people actually learned what they were supposed to. There was a fair amount of unintentional segregation, but EVERYONE got along better then.

allowing people to fail is how people learn to succeed....liberalism is a disease...

If you taught logic & poli sci in public schools

INSTEAD of FOOTBALL & The Work Ethic

then PROGRESS would rear its ugly head.

GOOD THING WE WON'T TEACH LOGIC! Football? YOU BET!