The dumbing down is accelerated by several factors. First, education schools mostly get relatlvely low-performing students. Second, education schools don't teach education, they teach indoctrination. Third, the inferior graduates of these education schools then teach the next generation, which falls even further behind. And so on.
I know there are some great teachers out there, and there are even some great schools where such teachers can thrive. But such cases are rare.
I know there are some great teachers out there,
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Those “good” teachers who aid an abet the government schools are enablers. They are putting a dead horse on life support and dragging him around the race track.
A never ending downward spiral to functional illiteracy.