By the way if you truly think that somehow just making the best schools in the world will make anything better for students, you have truly forgotten what it is like to be a student. The only thing you learn in a school is to be slave to a routine and to never question adults. this is true in public schools, private schools, rich schools and poor schools. All of the battles in schools today are about the adults and not the children. Every moment I was in school I couldn't wait to leave. I became an educated person DESPITE the American school system, not because of it. No child from the age of five to the age of eighteen truly wants to be in school. Not to mention the fact that ninety percent of what you learn in school is meaningless when you get to the adult world. I have not used algebra since the day I graduated high school nor balanced a chemical equation. Most children can live their lives without needing to know about the war of 1812 or what happened in Benjamin harrison's adminsitration. You can do whatever you want to make education free. Now try and make eighty to ninety percent of children want to go there. But of course, it's not about what children want. It's what the parents want. Which is to not baby sit their children while they're at work. And for the record, universal education: how are you going to come up with a curicculum that please every parent out there? Or in a single state. The average parent in New York is not the same as the one in Idaho. Oh that's right, they're the ignorant rural voters, so screw them. We'll give it to thre kids and if they don't like it, we'll force it down their throats.