Schools weren’t always a failure, although they’ve always had a tendency to teach only a limited portion of the group.
Schools began the downward glide in the mid ‘60s when they began to rely on opinion rather than proof. That is when evolution was inserted forcefully.
Fortunately most of my teachers knew how foolish evolution was, and didn’t attempt to cover up its vast shortcomings. We had one notable athiest teacher that often became enraged when the class found her amusing.
In a few generations they will say that about Obamacare. They will say, “Socialized medicine wasn't always a failure”, and it likely won't be. Why? Because of the professionalism and values of those still in the corrupt system. In a generation or two those people will be dead and **then** we will see the full horror of socialized medicine.
Well...Socialized schooling is a corrupt system. It was merely the professionalism and values of the teachers still living and breathing American value that was giving CPR to a still born idea. The chest was going up and down, and the heart being pumped but the idea of socialized medicine was dead on arrival.
Excuse me here, but evolution is backed by a veritable mountain of evidence, and it has been challenged over and over again since its inception around a hundred and fifty years ago, and has emerged undefeated - stronger even - each time.
Indeed, there is a reason that the scientific consensus holds evolution to be true.