> Fix education. - The disparities in education levels in the US are primarily a product of parenting styles, not the school system. Having a better school sys

> Fix education. - The disparities in education levels in the US are primarily a product of parenting styles, not the school system. Having a better school system would obviously be good, but it's probably not possible to improve our school system enough to overcome the contribution (or lack thereof) from parents. - We currently have a teacher retention problem, which may be more important than the problem of not being able to fire bad teachers with tenure. Roughly 50% of teachers leave the profession within the first five years, and that's after investing a substantial amount of time and money to get the relevant masters degree and certifications. While it should be easier to fire bad teachers, the problem is that in places where it's easy to fire bad teachers, good teachers often end up getting fired for political reasons. So any system that makes it easy to fire bad teachers may well end up creating a system with a higher ratio of bad teachers to good teachers. I agree that the root of most of America's problems revolve around education, but spending more money on education isn't going to fix (or even ameliorate) our problems unless it is deployed very judiciously. (And it may well be possible to improve the school system by spending less money than we spend currently.)