Painting with broad strokes has never solved a problem created by painting with broad strokes. Instead of jumping from one system to the other - trading one set of flaws for others and then pointing fingers over whose flaws were worse - sticking with any system and fixing its flaws with precision will generally result in sufficient improvements that it doesn't really matter what system you use.
Education costs money. It is necessary to throw money at it. But there is a lot of room for keeping money from being wasted, and most of it can be identified and solved by applying dreaded common sense.
It's wasteful to pay for the morons who sit on educational welfare for years milking it while feigning intelligence through controversy and claims of wikipedia stardom.
It's wasteful to pay for institutions with less than 20% graduation / transfer rate combined, who lure in people with no chance of completion for the mutual masturbation that is student aid.
It's wasteful to pay retards six figures to sit around and argue these things all day when taking any action at all to improve the situation could be accomplished by a person of average intelligence and no experience.
The career politicians are what isn't working, the policies themselves could each be viable if the country wasn't so rooted into emotionalism and telling itself that it has a right to an opinion without the responsibility to think before forming it. Even a country has its own hierarchy of needs. It's necessary to eliminate the root problem first, then move on and improve the finer points.
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