If anything we need to double the amount of money paid to build high-intensity “schools” for those kids, and then reduce the amount of money needed for the good kids, because honestly all of that money is wasted now on the bad ones. We should also imprison criminals but that goes without saying. If we don’t have enough prisons to house violent criminals then we simply need more prisons, or release them only into communities that vote for such a thing (maybe rich liberal communities only etc.)

> We should also imprison criminals but that goes without saying.

Obviously we need effective justice.

But since we are on the topic of ineffective schooling, there is an argument to be made that US prisons are more effective at punishment than rehabilitation. Which seems to please some people, but just adds another undertow to society.

A loss for criminal inmates, and everyone they impact, family or stranger, after they are released.

Education is worth looking at with respect to an entire culture, with many important contexts beyond/outside school. From before school age (huge), onward.

There's a great early TED talk from a Lawyer trying to stop death row inmates being executed.

He realises that the simplest and easiest intervention is to stop the violent crime happening in the first place, and the cheapest and easiest way to do that is to intervene in the future murderers childhood. The specific example he gives is a client with a schizophrenic mother who needed more support.

Instead of imprisoning all criminals we should be streamlining the process to execute murderers, drug dealers, etc.