The school system needs to be changed and something done rather than beautiful buildings. Kids anymore can't even count out change, boys come out of school without any technical knowledge, women graduate without any basic home making skills or anything about what families should eat. Kids have no knowledge of why they need to learn and for what reason. Public school kids have few standards taught by teachers who could if they had some backup by the system. Unions have gained strength in proportion to teaching principles being lost. Schools used start at 8:00 AM and get out at 4:00 PM but not anymore. Many of the young teachers get into teaching for the same reasons they used to but are forced to give up their ideals and ideas by a rigid obsolete government system. I know it's a changing world and kids don't work at the part time jobs we used to have to anymore but we learned and participated in far more than exercising our thumbs 
dressing like bums.