If Americans received an education in the past it was because **parents** were doing a terrific job of **afterschooling**! It's taken several generations but the progressives have finally managed to severely damage the family structure that produced all that educational success.
The American system of modern schooling started out in the mid-1800s to early 1900s as a **compulsory-use**, compulsory-funded, police-enforced, and single-payer socialist-entitlement. Nothing good can come from that.
Single-payer government schooling was a progressive idea of the 19th century. Progressives have **always** controlled teacher training and curriculum development. Progressives have always pushed for greater and greater secularization until now they are utterly godless! Progressives have always pushed at the edges of society's morals and ethics. Today, nearly every teacher in the nation ( both private and government) was trained by godless Marxists in Marxist-run colleges and universities.
Anyone who think single-payer and socialist-entitlement schooling can be fixed is a fool! The very foundation upon which it is built is rotten!
You have to take it one step farther. Public education was designed to create compliant citizens who were fit to find their proper place in a rapidly industrializing society. Development and cultivation of the intellect had to take second place to technical competence and obedience to authority.
This sounds conspiratorial, I know, and flies in the face of the what we think we know of our own history. It did for me.
But, to at least consider the possibility that we went way off the rails, and more importantly when, why and how, I suggest listening to John Taylor Gatto