Which is why we need to go to a voucher system. Let parents decide the winners and losers of schools. Not the bureaucrats.
Vouchers might work better. But, with vouchers, the taxpayers are still forced to fund education, and still, not every student would get into a good school. The bad schools would stay in business with the overflow of students who didn’t get into the good schools.
A better idea is to privatize all education. Let parents buy their own children’s education on the free market. Many parents would be surprised at how inexpensive a quality education is right now outside public school. If public schools were shut down, thus no longer monopolizing the education market, all sorts of private schools would open and compete with each other for business, and the cost of education would drop.
But, neither of our ideas will happen. The truth is, most parents don’t care about the vile and disgusting stuff being taught to their children. As long as someone else is teaching their kids, they don’t care and they don’t want to be bothered. Even the parents who complain keep sending their kids to the schools they complain about.