There are a lot of lib, well-intentioned teachers falling for slick snake oil salesmen that have nice, hippie sounding education strategies that have no scientific backing. There are a lot of chud parents who harass teachers at every turn. There are Bush era policies that created horrible incentives to undermine quality education, but the funny thing there is I'm convinced that Bush actually thought he was improving public education. There are so many aspects of this that are perhaps consequences of living under capitalism for so long, but have unique manifestations