“...demand the privatization of education...”
Yes. Privatization is what is needed. I believe that the crux of the matter is in our state compulsory education laws.
Compulsory education laws enable the states to appropriate tax money. Then we get people in various levels of government trying to figure out just how that money gets spent rather than what’s best for any particular student.
Does my reasoning make sense?
There was a time when local governments were in total control of their schools. They were public schools with local control, local hiring, local taxing, local funding, local supervision. That seemed to work with little resources.
That is not the case now.
Would private schools work? Possibly but there is no pattern that supports that now.