To understand the present situation, it helps to suppose that the public schools are not failures but solid successes at achieving their goals.
It also aids the understanding to assume, just for the moment, that the faceless grey bureaucrats lurking in the institutional establishments are not parasites, but predators.
IMHO, the best hope is for America’s children to offer massive but passive resistance to this socialist nightmare - play hooky by the millions!
If that doesn’t work, then I guess they’ll just have to escape, one by one, like my generation.
A $10k tax deduction for every American child under 16(that’s right-16) would solve the problem overnight. That long with eliminating ALL education funding.
Millions are, in effect, already that via home schooling.
Parents don't let the government indoctrination centers fill your kid's head with commie mush. Home school them or enroll them in a quality private school.