I think the cause/effect is reversed. Society is damaged because parents cannot raise kids properly for a variety of reasons. You have kids who don't come to sc

I think the cause/effect is reversed. Society is damaged because parents cannot raise kids properly for a variety of reasons. You have kids who don't come to school, entire classrooms where 80% of the time is spent managing behavior, kids who receive zero parental support at home because the single parent is working two jobs, etc. That problem is hard to fix, whereas the curriculum is soft and malleable. You also have an entire industry of education PHDs who have never taught class for any appreciable amount of time who have a neoliberal fetish for minor policy tweaks as the path to heaven. Teachers have the same problems as police, random societal functions have fallen to them by default because there's no alternative. They're surrogate parents, social workers, mental health counselors, etc. and there's barely any time to do any teaching afterwards.