1 – Fix the education system 2 – Don’t let people who know nothing about teaching tell teachers how to teach 3 – Don’t tell teachers that their job is going to partly rely on how well kids do on standardized tests 4 – Don’t have a different standardized test for every state, then pretend that you can compare results in a way that means anything 5 – Don’t let different groups of students in different take the same standardized tests and then pretend that you can compare results in a way that means anything 6 – Don’t let people who have never taught at all tell teachers who to do their jobs 7 – Don’t let people who taught 10, 15, or 20 years ago tell teachers how to do their jobs 8 – Don’t have different standards for every state and then pretend that you can compare grades/test scores between those states in a way that means anything 9 – Don’t keep teachers around that suck only because they’ve been around for a while 10 – Don’t let people who send their kids to private school have a majority voice (or any voice that amounts to anything really) in how to run public schools 11 – Don’t Let people who have never even set foot inside a public school tell teachers how to their jobs