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Absolutely. I teach an after-school / summer program for predominantly low-income K-8th grade students. Most of my Kindergartners are with me each day for longer than they are in public school. The amount of six year olds being medicated on a daily basis because they are bored is unfathomable. I feel like public education in this country is just a conveyor belt pumping out kids into a broken economy. It's extremely frustrating that my infant daughter will be going into the public school system in a few years, because I can't afford to home school her or send her to a more progressive private school.Does our current education hamper individual creativity and growth? And does the US need a major revamp of its public education system?