I agree. Well-intentioned people believe that a shortage of resources is the problem, or that immigrants are the problem, but that's a distraction. High-school students newly arrived from El Salvador aren't taking the SAT. Illegal immigrants aren't forcing the lowest-scoring college attendees into Education degrees, or producing teachers who believe their primary purpose is to build self-esteem.
The problems were created largely by highly educated, white, American citizens ... ideologues with a plan for social engineering that has produced an educational wasteland.
Absolutely true. Absolutely.