"Note that the government is largely responsible for our education catastrophe. The government should be removed from education, like all other areas of human l

"Note that the government is largely responsible for our education catastrophe. The government should be removed from education, like all other areas of human life. Allow people to have choices in a free market, and the revolutionary innovations would eventually rise to the surface." Yet, the "superior" education systems outside the US are also public run and managed (top 5 OECD being S. Korea, Finland, Canada, N. Zealand, and Japan). So, it isn't as if the free market has spoken on behalf of the world against the US public school system. It's a breakdown of priorities and politics in the US, not the system itself. When there are powers that vilify the teacher simply because s/he belongs to a union, that is not a fundamental breakdown of the public school system. When there are systems that act simply as babysitters and prisons to the children of unwed urban teenage mothers, that is not a breakdown of the public system. When there are politicians who decry those with PhDs and ivy educations as "elitists", media figures who scoff at scientific research by poking their head out a window and declaring "it's cold outside, there's no global warming", and a public who determines presidents based on beer-drinking compatibility rather than intellectual capacity or academic achievement, that is not a fundamental flaw of public education.