You can’t set up an “education” system this bad, unless education is the last thing you want to achieve. It’s like Obama — he’s running the country really, really badly isn’t he? Well, that’s because he’s doing it badly on purpose. You cannot be this bad just by being dumb. Even dumb people do somethings correctly. If you are 100% wrong (Obama; government schools) you must be working to a plan.
RE: “It’s like Obama.”
An important point. Obama makes it easier to understand the decline in education.
And understanding how they achieved the decline in education makes it easier to see what Obama is doing to the whole society.