To get it out of the way -- apparently you've never heard and you might be shocked to know that sex-offending teachers are not fired. They are routinely assigne

To get it out of the way -- apparently you've never heard and you might be shocked to know that sex-offending teachers are not fired. They are routinely assigned to "rubber rooms", classrooms with no students. https://nypost.com/2019/11/02/nyc-pays-rubber-room-teacher-six-figures-20-years-after-sex-abuse-claims/ https://nypost.com/2019/11/02/nyc-pays-rubber-room-teacher-s... Only the left defends this and makes it practically impossible to fire bad teachers. This is incredibly wasteful mismanagement that educates nobody. I couldn't agree more about how unfair school funding is and the differences in quality. This is one element of systemic racism in America completely recognized by left & right. Families in Saratoga exercise a soft racism of paid separation, and yet they lecture me and everyone else living in more diverse areas about how police are racist and jailing criminals is immoral. California spends /almost/ the most money on schools, per pupil, and we have almost the lowest test scores. One party has exclusive control of all institutional and government power in California and there is nobody left to blame. I am willing now to try something new. Are you? Education is essential. Sure. Food is also essential. If the government controlled all food distribution and ran a monopoly of restaurants, you could be assured we'd all be eating tree bark by now. For-profit universities exist and they work, or they go out of business. Why not high schools? Why not junior high, etc? I am in favor of charter schools which are no cost to parents. Example: Harlem Success Academy, from wikipedia at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_Academy_Charter_Schools https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_Academy_Charter_School... " In New York City, 47% percent of public school students passed state reading tests, and 43% passed math tests. At Success schools, corresponding percentages were 91% and 98%.[29] These scores come from a student group made up of 95% children of color, with families having a median income of $32,000.[30] No new students above the fourth grade are accepted at Success.[28] " No wonder the public school teachers union routinely lobbies to shut them down -- it makes them look bad. As to the anti-free speech, yes feel free to ignore it -- I am glad the left has stopped pretending they believe in free speech and has unshackled its anti-enlightenment extremists. They know their arguments don't hold up well in debates and the anti-speech theatrics just make it obvious that their orthodoxy requires groupthink to survive. Shucks -- they've even got /you/ dissembling for them.