Funny, first they claimed all we needed to do was OK Lotto to fix the schools... then- surprise!- still not enough money "for the children..." ...so next we "needed" to pass a SPLOST- a special purpose local option sales tax. Hey, it was only 1% more... We're working on the 4th SPLOST now... they're "sure" that will cure the problems... BTW, property taxes have quadrupled since then... It will never end because the money is used for politics, not education. Schooling is really not that hard and kids are really not that dumb. "Here's a book, kid, now read!" It really is almost that easy. (Small exaggeration there, but my point is, learning is like exercise...it's a mental discipline; not really that hard, just a little boring and time consuming. It isn't entertainment, sorry kids.)
Naturally, I agree- both my parents ( b. 1890 & 1918 ) learned in a one-room schoolhouse, and I suspect what passed for high school level then would be college level now. If not higher. They really knew "a lot of stuff about everything."