Public Education

Lack of funds is not why public education in this country sucks dead bunnies. Give a kid a laptop and he will use it for games, web surfing, IM-ing, updating his/her Facebook or MySpace page, or anything you can do with a computer other than what the school system thinks they are doing with it. If you want them to learn, take away the laptop and replace it with a competent teacher and a chalkboard.