Or, and hear me out: we could cut our military budget (which is larger than the next ten or so countries combined, both total and per capita) and start tipping the corporate tax share back towards the ~%50 it was sixty years ago and magically be able to:
* pay teachers a fair wage
* hire enough teachers, assistants, and admins so that teachers don't have to work at least another half a workday 'off the books'
* fund schools well enough that teachers don't have to pay out of pocket for basic supplies like chalk and paper
* feed our children a proper meal at lunch by default, instead of making them pay for a crappy meal (unless their busy parents jump through hoops to prove they're poor enough)
One of the strangest things for me as a private school student coming from the public school system was being able to go into the lunch line, get what food I wanted, as much as I wanted, and not have to pay for it. No worries about losing the lunch money I'd been given, getting beat up for my lunch money, etc.
* pay teachers a fair wage
* hire enough teachers, assistants, and admins so that teachers don't have to work at least another half a workday 'off the books'
* fund schools well enough that teachers don't have to pay out of pocket for basic supplies like chalk and paper
* feed our children a proper meal at lunch by default, instead of making them pay for a crappy meal (unless their busy parents jump through hoops to prove they're poor enough)
One of the strangest things for me as a private school student coming from the public school system was being able to go into the lunch line, get what food I wanted, as much as I wanted, and not have to pay for it. No worries about losing the lunch money I'd been given, getting beat up for my lunch money, etc.