Once we have identified modern schooling as functioning as an authoritarian instrument of conformity and oppression, what is to be done?
We could Deschool America along the lines of Ivan Illich's model.
We could take the voucher model of the Republicans.
Personally I think must first recognize that local school boards are NOT qualified to oversee schools and that the system we have for funding schools is archaic and bound to give us wildly different outcomes from school district to school district.
Were I king, I think I might Federalize the whole damned system and impose a series of tests on the teaching staff to insure that:
1. They actually are qualified to teach their subjects
2. They know how to teach what they know
The other thing I would do is put EDUCATORS in charge of education and NOT make them responsible for any other duty including discipline, monitoring, lunch details, pep rallies and a whole host of other nonsense that we impose of them.
We don't ask our doctors to sweep the floors or guard the hospitals, but we think nothing of demanding that sort of thing from educators.
Miserable profession, teaching.