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Ummm.... public school teachers are not paid minimum wage. They do very, very well, including benefits. And if they have seniority under the irresponsible teacher-union-backed scale, they are quite wealthy and by then they don't need to work at all over the summer break.

My suggestion is privatization and a voucher system. Competition forces schools to focus on better outcomes for the students. Wealthy parents have options. Poor parents do not.

Please read about the failures in public education. As I keep saying, it's not that Head Start doesn't help - you seem determined to misread that - it's that with relatively recent changes in public education, exacerbated by the ill-advised COVID shutdown of the public school system (teacher's unions "won" at the expense of everyone there), things are so bad that even good policies like starting school a year earlier are leading to a shocking lack of even basic literacy in our most vulnerable populations.

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