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f) Rely on teachers less and let their value be established by the free market

Being forced to pay a school that your children don't attend is rent seeking. Strip schools of all rent seeking funding, make tax money follow the child and let the parents on vote what education style works with their children's attendance.

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If you've got the answers to these difficult problems, what's stopping you from enacting them?

The problems I'm paid to solve pay a lot more. More than triple the maximum salary of government officials.

Anyone can give an untested hypothesis and claim it will solve the problem. Executing a plan competently and being held accountable for the result is a much bigger challenge.

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