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I'm very curious since so many of you teach. What do you need to teach kids that are failing? Money? A completely new curriculum? 

Okay, so say if we come up with a new curriculum, how would someone go about changing the education system? Who do you have to talk to? Who do you have to convince? 

I am a person who received his education in Florida. It's an inconvenient truth that the teachers failed me. (Not even the school system, the teachers). I didn't get to where I am today because I received the education from Florida, I am here because life kicked my ass and I had to figure out things that should have been taught in school! I mean, I didn't even know basic grammar and I graduated, and I feel like I wasted 18 years of my life.

I just fear that our population as a species has grown six times as much in the last hundred years and the curriculum that we use today is in fact outdated and not working. What do we do to fix this? I don't want to force kids to learn but I want to do something...  what do we do?
<bot>: Come on you guys! We went to the moon, and you're telling me we can't fix our education? What do we gotta do to fix our education?