Public education systems focus too much on standardized testing and curriculum rather than what matters most - equity and relationships. Redefining public education to be accessible and free for all could help achieve equity today without extensive resources, policies, or classroom management. If public funds were redirected from coercive schooling to community resources, everyone could learn through following their interests and contributing to society in their own way.

5. Perhaps compulsory curriculum/seat-time/test scores as a means to funding for
people/resources is getting in the way of what matters most.
Perhaps redefining public ed matters [verses re-imagining or ? ..]. because equity matters.

7. Many people are re-imagining public ed. In incredibly cool ways. The only problem is that
those ways aren’t accessible to everyone, right now. Some depend on where you live, some
on what teacher you get, or what space you get, what resources you have. Some depend
on your financial ability to choose. Most depend on assumed basics to be learned.

9. Think of what could be done with even a fraction of the roughly $600
billion of taxpayer money that is currently spent on coercive K–12
schools every year in the United States!
Per student, Sudbury schools cost only about half of what we now
spend per student on coercive public schools, so this plan would
result in great savings to taxpayers. Another possibility would be a
system of community centers, open to everyone free of charge.
– Peter Gray, Free to Learn

10. If we redefine public ed, to be about people, about relationships, then everyone gets a go.

11. If we redefine public ed to be something that requires no prep, no training, very little
policy, then everyone gets a go today.

12. If we redefine public ed, to eliminate all the time/money/people we spend on proving
things, on classroom management, we find we have all we need.
We find equity.

13. • everyone is known by someone
• everyone talks to self daily
• 7 billion people doing the thing they can’t not do
• resources/monies all go toward enlivening
city/community/people/everyone - today

15. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of
this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian
theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors
to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they
were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living. – Bucky Fuller
Imagine – if it works.