@hosford42@techhub.social @chemoelectric@masto.ai @marionline@autistics.life A major part of the problem is that you cannot expect to hire good teachers into an education system that treats its teachers in some ways worse than its janitors, grossly underpaying them and then still expecting them to provide their own classroom supplies out of their already inadequate salaries. It's a travesty. It could almost be designed to underperform. It's as though key parts of the system were built by people who grudgingly accepted that they were obligated to provide ordinary people with an education, but were damned if they were going to provide them a good one.