At its best, the current public school is anachronistic but it is far from "at its best".
We now have generations that have passed through the public education system and the degradation of intellectual capabilities is staggering.
The ignorant teaching the ignorant is not a plan for success.
Idiocracy is Prophesy!
I refer to the system as the public church because of the religious doctrines they teach. That is really bad all by itself but then add the complete lack of discipline and the fact that they are the first to completely submit to the racist card and, ok I have dozens of problems with the public school system.