Gotta go into politics* if you want to fix Education. Grassroots
   even. Not that I'm a fatalist per se but I remember family
   stories. School sucked for my grandmother. School sucked for my
   mother. School sucked for me. School sucks for my 9 yr old
   nephew who is having to deal with the beginnings of Common Core
   trying to confuse the math out of him [break-down / rebuild the
   soldier is the model of Common Core. Having known people who
   boot-camp BROKE and couldn't fix... the psychiatrists will have
   a field day in the next few year with THIS model of education)

   Long story short:

   School always sucks. There's a alt-school voucher system in
   place in most of the country that doesn't get advertised that
   encourages a child-directed education (I think it's called
   Magnet schools?) that aren't perfect either but taxes pay for
   those as well. I just wish they'd catch those that fall far off
   the bell curve before 6th grade and they become cutters and
   stuff. *sigh*

   Anyway... I'm glad to pay because school is pretty much going to
   suck, with a few possible exceptions *perhaps* and the kids are
   here and more kids keep getting made and there's no employment
   for under 18 nor can they have bank accounts but the parents
   *do* have employment and bank accounts and the kids gotta go
   SOMEWHERE.

   Yeah, it sucks.

   But Rubber-meets-the-road, unless you're gonna go into politics
   and get in a position to make change... or petition those in
   power successfully to do so... not paying taxes just gets you...
   fined.