“When I was in school we were responsible for taking care of our textbooks.”
Yup! First day of school, the school issued nice book covers, and we installed them in class. The condition of the book was noted, and we signed them on the inside of the cover. We were responsible for their condition at the end of the year.
I always say “A decent teacher could effectively teach in a barn with shared textbooks and a blackboard”.
My great grandmother got a better education than most highschoolers today and she graduated from a 1 room schoolhouse in the 9th grade. She was fluent in Latin, could do more advanced math than I can, plus could recite the declaration of independence and other founding documents from memory.
Dumping money into the schools is no smarter than dumping it into government.