My wife is a teacher. She will retire this year. She, however, teaches primary special ed. Spec ed is kind of the stepchild of the system and the system pretty much ignores the spec ed teachers. Wife teaches her kids real stuff and some of them end the year well ahead of their mainstream colleagues. Even some with less than average IQ read better at the end of the year than the mainstreamers and can handle numbers better. The teachers as a class, especially in the primary grades are not really responsible for the mess. To keep their jobs they must teach what and how the sstem requires which is extremely light on academics or makes them so complicated that they are unfathomable. The teaching colleges turn out caretakers and highly restricted babysitters rather than teachers. Concommitantly the brighter kids do not go into teaching. Massively supporting this system are the teachers unions which are precisely welfare organizations that are fastened to the government teat with iron jaws and sharp teeth. There is no saving the public schools. They cannot be reformed without totally cutting them loose from the federal government and disestablishing the unions. The last 50 years of such treatment of children has produced a population that knows no history and cannot reason. They are well on the way to becoming the interchangeable and disposable parts that the statists require.
— it is a socialist-entitlement
— It is and always has been a government and progressive collusion to indoctrination future voters
— It is a cartel monopoly
—It is price-fixed with a tuition to the user of “free”/
— It is compulsory-funded through taxation
— Its customers ( students) are guaranteed by way of police force
—The only escape to families is to pay jizya by way of home or private schooling expenses
— Progressive have always controlled teacher training and curriculum development
—It is godless in its worldview and never more than generically and lukewarmly Christian.
Only evil can come from the above. The government schools must be abolished if we are to save this nation.