The real reason is that the teachers don’t have the skills or knowledge. The teachers and administration are literally incompetent at their job, and should be fired.
My sister has been teaching math to middle school and high school kids for over 40 years. She gets amazing results. But she is a dying breed. The administrivia has gone up 25X during her career and teachers are micromanaged to a degree you wouldn’t believe. The average tenure for a teacher is now less than five years because nobody can take the oppressive administration telling you how to do your job. Teachers colleges are being shut down because nobody is going into teaching. The young, recently hired teachers all subscribe to the woke bullshit and educational fads and really don’t know how to teach. The math teaching industry is governed by the latest fads and there is at least one new fad every year that requires throwing out all previous curricula and substituting arcane, incomprehensible, nonsensical garbage for basic math. Year after year, the teachers are blamed for worse and worse performance.
If you could get rid of 90% of administrators tomorrow, get rid of 75% of the standardized tests, get the CRT crap out of the schools, and let teachers do what they are paid to do, test scores would rapidly rise to historical norms.
The insider’s view of the education industry is astonishing. Fixing this isn’t rocket science.
Very true. Many of the kids are smarter than the teachers.