“Long winded but my point is we gradually moved away from educated or kids over thirty years.”
You haven’t been long winded enough. There is more work for you to do.
You’ve come up with the problem. Now you need to work on the cause and then the solution.
Have you asked yourself why things have ended up this way? That’s the most important part.
Four causes, maybe more but the four I think had the biggest impact:
1. Government funds = Government control
2. Greed and rise of teachers Unions, a powerful socialist/secularist organization that gets power through control of pay.
3. Drugs, drugs and more drugs so teachers do not have to manage classrooms.
4. Teachers teach to the lowest common denominator to prevent students from feeling bad. Better to keep every student dumb than hurt some kids feelings about themselves.