I Solve All Education's Woes

I have a guaranteed way to fix the US education system.
The system I have is guaranteed to work. Every student will be brought to his or her potential. We can have tests to prove the students have/can learned anything we as a society think they should.
And the system is unimpeachable. No reasonable person can say it wouldn't work. Because it will. Absolutely. Work.

You're saying to yourself "That's mighty big talk, Mister. What's the downside?"

Well friend, I'll tell ya. We can have all those things we want. Calculus in the 8th grade. Kids all know French and Latin and Chinese before their second year of High School. Whatever we want. The sky's the limit.

What do we have to do?

Make the average size of a public school class 6.

That's right. All we need to do is make the average size of all the elementary, middle, and high school classes, six students.

There is absolutely no doubt it would work. We would have the best education system in the world.

"Oh" you whine "But the cost!"

You are a whiner.

Let's look at the costs:

How many teachers do we employ in the US?
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of teachers in primary and secondary schools in the US is about 3.5 million.
How many kids are in school?
There are 47.7 million primary and secondary school students according to IES.
So that's about 13 teachers/student. But the average class size is almost 24 according to The New York Times.
According to the Republicans, teachers cost about $100,000/year with salary and benefits. If we were allowed to do accounting in education, we'd either divvy up the total number of students by how much the whole system costs (which, according to the IES, is $562.3 billion.) So let's say we need to actually triple the budget in order to get down to 6 students, on average, per class.
Or, perhaps wishfully, let's think in terms of 1.5 trillion dollars. On education.

Yup. Thinking this way, education will cost 1.5 trillion bucks. Per year. And all we'd get out of it are kids who can do math and read critically and know more about science and the world.

Sure, there are people who are actually against kids knowing that stuff. And a lot of them have been elected to position of great importance in inverse proportion to their own ignorance.

But I'm just saying: you wanna reform schools? There's a way.