Two reasons, it is GOVERNMENT in education, and the massive, powerful teachers’ unions. You can put some blame on the school boards themselves, often populated with retired teachers and those sympathetic to the teachers.
I guess another main reason, coming at it from another frame of reference, is there’s no accountability for failure like there is in the rest of the real world. You suck, you get fired, or the business folds, shareholders remove top administrators.
Can’t do that with teachers and superintendents. Can’t fire them based on sh1tty results. Unions and contracts protect them. It’s almost impossible to remove teachers.
Two reasons, it is GOVERNMENT in education, and the massive, powerful teachers’ unions
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Socialism **always** produces massive political voting blocks and powerful lobbies. Socialism produced SEIU and AFSCME.
It was **inevitable** that socialist, single payer, government schools produced powerful teachers unions!
If we have socialist, single payer, government health care it is **inevitable** that we will have very powerful Doctors Unions, Nurses Unions, and Health workers unions. Maybe it will be in one giant union!
Socialist, single payer, government schools ***are** socialism. Socialism can not be fixed. It must be abolished.