Has anyone tried giving kids a vote in school-board elections?
Teachers' unions are increasingly compromised. Electeds use kids as pawns to appeal to radicals to promote random social causes. And parents seem to focus on grades going up at the expense of an actual education.
Maybe they'll just vote themselves candy. But in my experience, kids understand--at least as well as the median adult voter--what they need to succeed. Enfranchising them in their own educations seems worth exploring.
California, in particular, has high-school only school districts. We don't have to start with whether the kindergarten block is aligned with less nap time.