You get more of what you focus on. We, as a nation, have increasingly focused on “poverty” and hardship to the point of obsession and have pored trillions of dollars after that obsession. The nmore money you soend fighty “pverty” the more you will get. Guaranteed. What you resist persists.
The same can certainly be said for public education. We have huge per pupil spending, but the results, often in the biggest-spending areas, have been a devolution into PC indoctrination and a morass of anti-intellectual, anti-creative, anti-freedom and anti-individual dogmas more conformist and oppressive than the Christian social theocracy against which Marxist do-gooders routinely rebel.
Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. --Friedrich Nietzsche