What would you change about the American public school system?

[vulcanlogician]

It's not about pay or funding.  It's that when a kid throws a chair in the class, or tips over a table, there's no resolution to be had.  And this is 1st grade.

And the generally proposed solution is "What if instead of 8 table flippers in one school, we put one table flipper in every school!"  Which just disrupts everybody. 

Yeah but look at what kind of role models these kids have.