This is a real problem. The public schools have churned out so many idiots that the idiots wield electoral power.
All three of my daughters attended pubic school in Japan through most or all of their elementary years. They all scored in the middle of the pack (between 40th and 60th percentiles) in the Japanese equivalent of our Iowa basic tests. First year back home (in one of the better districts in Pennsylvania), they were suddenly in the high 80th and low 90th percentiles. I kid you not.
Bingo!