Wee ice mon: I don’t think anybody here would contest that government involvement and education bureaucracy aren’t a problem! It’s not just dumping on the teachers, though they deserve a good deal of it (not so much from the individual teacher level, but the level of the teacher’s unions and what they will and won’t agree to). Teacher’s are also wildly mis-educated in education schools. Not that they aren’t sincere or committed or hard working, they simply have no clue how to teach a subject because they’ve been fed a pile of gunk from the education professoriate, possibly the biggest group of idiots this side of Congress.

In any case, with education as a topic, the list of problems is so vast that you can’t possibly target everything in one post.