The school system needs to be completely refurbished, it doesn't need more money. It needs more money like the government needs more lazy ass workers who don't do shit all day.
As a side note, I'd like to add that I was home schooled. It took me approximately 2 hours a day to completely rape my assigned work, and some days I'd finish a weeks work in a day so I could slack off. I now work a full time job, run the bulk of my fathers real estate business' operations, and have recently just started my own business venture. So I don't think free time directly influences whether a person is lazy or not.
What I would suggest is CUTTING the hours/days of high school (elementary school is more of a daycare then it is a place of education), and increasing the quality of education, more like college in the sense that you get a book, listen to the teacher give his rap and learn like a bastard or fail your test. Basically changing the whats, hows and whens.
This way we can cut costs and increase the quality of education as well as the quality of the student's lives. The downside is you'll lose a lot of teaching jobs (and this is what I think is needed but will sadly never happen due to the teachers union being ginormous and thus holding a lot of political sway), but you do get a large workforce you can put to work for beans.
Or you can privatize and unrestrict the system and see what the variety of schools can produce.
(Two edits, high score.)
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