Great. I agree 100%. So why aren’t they doing this?
“So why aren’t they doing this?”
Again, my opinion- part of it is a lack of knowledge about education in general. A lot of Republicans, particularly ones in power are older people who assume that students today have experiences similar to their own, 40 or 50 years previously. The other part being a tendency for more libertarian-leaning Republicans to advocate measures discarding public schools altogether, which, whatever its merits, is a political nonstarter. The cynic in me suggests the Republican elites also have no great desire to improve education for the same reasons the Democrats would not- it interferes with their power.
1787 December 20. (to James Madison) “Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to ; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.”- Thomas Jefferson