Solution to the Problem of State Schooling

Having grown up in the state schooling system I have thought long about my experience. Though it was better than some have had, it is on the whole as George Carlin said,

"You know what they want? ... People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it."

There is a better way. Of course there is home and private schooling, but a more radical approach is necessary.

I propose that all the teachers of the public system nationally and worldwide en masse opt out. Take your skills and your certifications and just leave. 

In the place of the messy stratified state system can be built a horizontally organized education system. It shall be a network of coops and and the teacher salaries will come from crowd sourcing. The classes can be taught locally and also through the internet. Parents and children will be able to put together their own curriculum from all the available options.

The state will surely still mandate certain standards as is required of homeschoolers, but this is to be expected and can be easily met.

Through mass crowd funding costs can still be generalized and scholarships can still be given out, so that the unmonied will also be empowered. If the poor and wealthy could not alike be educated though this distributed non-system then it would be without merit.

Let's develop people who are smart enough to know that the machines are irrelevant and outdated in the first place. Let's build a free society of pluralistic and educated people through distributed schooling.

Here's how easy this will be. A Kickstarter is started, teachers agree to sign onto the program when certain financial goals are met, educators opt out and rebuild with increased academic freedom while maintaining financial security as well, distributed schooled youth passes ACTs, GEDs, get into jobs and colleges [or higher distributed schooling programs, and finally the old system is completely obsolete and destroyed. 

This could be so effective that the National Guard is called in to force kids and teachers back into the state schools, but this would only further show the archaicness and irrelevance of the old structures.

This program also is without limits. As many people can teach as there are those willing to learn, so teacher employment should actually increase dramatically. 

Let it begin today.