Keep in mind that this took place in Kalifornia. The vast majority of public schools are not as seemingly hopeless as of yet. Let us keep fighting to keep these things from happening everywhere...including Kalifornia. Don't give up.
My kids go to private school and I thank God every day that we can scrape enough money together every month to keep them there. But that doesn't mean that what happens in the public schools don't impact us.
We have to care, we have to fight, we have to actively oppose the bad things and help support the good things. We can't sit back and do nothing because it's not "our problem". It is our problem.
Sorry for the venom, but I feel so passionately about this issue and have been trying to get people here on FR to stop the fatalist attitude about public schools. Nothing is impossible if we work together to defeat the liberal agenda on our TAXPAYER FUNDED public school campuses.