The problem in my humble opinion is we have too few teachers and far too many union members....
Teachiing at one time was considered a “calling” as in your life had a higher purpose ....
Now most teachers are basically union tools....
Ok...So,... government owned and run socialist-entitlement schooling worked somewhat well in the beginning. So will Obamacare! Why? Because the values of those who first worked in the system. We won't immediately see a great difference in our medical care. It will take a generation or two before the real horror of Obamacare is felt by all.
In a generation or two every proposed solution now being offered up to “fix” socialist-entitlment schooling will be hauled out to “fix” socialist-entitlment health care. Few citizens will see or understand that socialist-entitlement programs can NOT NOT NOT be fixed!
One more thing,...your teachers likely came from my father's generation ( born 1913). He grew up in a household where his grandfather served in the Civil War! If socialist-entitlement schooling limped along somewhat effectively for us, it was due to the values of teachers working to overcome the impossible.
The **PROBLEM** with our system of socialist-entitlement schooling is that it is SOCIALIST! The only possible solution is privatization.