The down votes you're getting make me sad, because it's just more proof that there's no will to fix our problems.

What you proposed isn't radical or unreasonable. It's ridiculous and unfair that kids growing up in Kansas don't have the same opportunity to be, say, an engineer when they grow up as kids growing up in California because of the difference in educational quality. Even the educational quality between towns and cities in any state is dramatically differnt because school funding is based on property taxes in many places. Its a system that simply does not work. It's outright shameful and a betrayal of everything we insist we stand for.

There are solutions but too many of us are too easily angered and frightened to move forward with any kind of meaningful change.