The biggest problem in public schools is money above everything else. My mother is a teacher and so I have to listen to her horror stories at least once a week.

The biggest problem in public schools is money above everything else. My mother is a teacher and so I have to listen to her horror stories at least once a week. There's simply not enough teachers, run-down schools, outdated equipment, unmotivated teachers some of whom spend more time "sick" at home than in school and regular experiments with curricula teaching methods... I never thought I'd become that guy, but as of late I've come to realise that the best teachers I had were indeed the "Neulehrer" - people who, after WW2 were assigned teaching jobs without formal pedagogical education due to lack of personell back then. These teachers knew their subjects, didn't give a crap about "advisories" from the state's education board and taught based on decades of experience. Their methods sometimes seemed oddly out of place and even archaic, but they were effective ¯\_(ツ)_/¯