To be fair, the teachers sort of deserve some blame, in multiple ways. They somewhat willingly support a union. (they at least voted to unionize) That union, v

To be fair, the teachers sort of deserve some blame, in multiple ways. They somewhat willingly support a union. (they at least voted to unionize) That union, via stealing from the teacher's paychecks and "donating" to politicians, is a corrupt money pipeline from taxpayers to one political party. That party opposes anything that would enable tossing out the bad students or punishing them. The resulting awful work environment is thus, indirectly, supported by the teachers. There are in fact many poor-quality teachers. Firing them is difficult, again because of the union that they endorse. I'm seeing hypocrisy lately, with union-protected bad teachers protesting against unions protecting bad cops. The awful work environment discourages people from entering the profession. Because of this, schools have fewer good candidates to hire. There isn't much point firing a bad teacher if a replacement is unlikely to be any better.