I'm pretty sympathetic to this tactic - it's amazing how many 'intractable' political and social debates have been solved by rendering the whole problem moot fo

I'm pretty sympathetic to this tactic - it's amazing how many 'intractable' political and social debates have been solved by rendering the whole problem moot for a group that's not already entrenched. Science rather famously "advances one funereal at a time", and most debates over resources don't get settled so much as growth and technology render them uninteresting. (Recall that brightly colored fabrics were once a source of enormous wealth and even legislation.) But I'll be damned if I can work out how to apply it to childhood education. It's almost definitionally a system run by the old guard, on 'behalf' of people too young to change anything. A lot of my friends and I got to our late teens and twenties, swore up and down we were going to fix some of the obvious idiocies and cruelties and wastes of education, and just utterly failed. There's no population to offer a competing system to, and very little road into the existing for any member of the 'young smart generation' which lacks either children (to be a stakeholder) or multiple degrees and time in the trenches (to be a participant).