The education establishment wants the inner city students to fail. It is a deliberate effort to maintain an uneducated (I refer to real education, not the phony “self esteem” bovine scat) underclass, made up of members of minority “permanent victims”. Yes, the liberals like to throw around the term racist at any one who disagrees with them, however their very actions in inner city schools are racist themselves. And of course these liberal elitists send their own kids to the best private schools.
This is even worse than the nomenklatura in the Soviet Union.
Maybe. But it's undeniably true that real 'education' takes a back seat to just about every other facet of school district operations. Most of the money goes to things that can't really be justified. Astroturf for the football field. A pool for the swim team. A renovated wing of a building that is less than 20 years old. New computers for this classroom or that (a real treadmill if I ever saw one). And I haven't even addressed the teachers' unions and their demands. Heck, if it were only that we'd be able to manage the situation.