There are so many aspects to the question posed by the OP one wonders where best to start.

Its clear our education system is faltering badly . I also believe it is clear that there are many people/organizations responsible for this demise to a varying degree.

We would of course have to start with the family and their attitude toward education and educators. Most living in The villages were taught respect for teachers and taught that life was not fair and to creative in finding ways to get along. Also education was a very serious matter then s a means of determining how and how well you would spend the rest of your life. This was all possible because of traditional middle class values .

The teaching profession was once looked up with reverence it no longer is and they the teachers are responsible for that shift in attitude. The scandals that abound sexual abuse, cheating by teachers such in Georgia and the across the board decline in the quality of teachers are some but not all of the causes.

The cultural clashes of the 1960-70-80-90-2000+ have moved the educational agenda from teaching children to be responsible citizens to faddish cultural breeding with a strong anti-American bent. The cultural clashes continue and fringe liberals are actually trying to re-write history, that's what communist nations do.

Young people have no idea how our government/ political system operates because cultural diversity courses are more important then a civic course

The major factor that has interfered with the educational process has been public unions because for one they protect incompetent teachers and in fact have defended teachers found to be sexually abusing kids.

Another source of the problem is secularism because its focus is on making government god

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