The real problem with Education is that it has been taken over by the large Tax Exempt foundations (Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, etc) that do not want children to graduate with the skills necessary to go out in the world and make it on their own. They want workers.
Don’t listen to Phyllis Schafley, listen to Charlotte Iserbyt.
Here is a 45 minute interview with Norman Dodd who was the lead investigator for the majority in the Reece Commission on Large Tax Exempt Foundations, 1953/1954. The interview took place in the 1980s just before he died:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUYCBfmIcHM
I guess I should give him credit for being honest about his motivations. He was pretty open in his assertions that the role of public schools was to ensure that American kids were NOT educated -- but were being prepared to serve as laborers in an industrial economy. Even something as simple as kids lining up in the school yard after a loud bell rang on the outside of the building was supposed to mimic the whistle that sounded at the local factory at the start of every shift.