In that case, you have more pressing concerns than the public schools, such as the military-industrial-congressional complex, corporate welfare, and a tax code that privileges rent-seeking over labor.

Nonsense, besides the fact that I can look at more than one budget item at a time, education is one of the biggest[1], being between 20% and 40% of every state's budget.

> ... and a tax code that privileges rent-seeking over labor.

Education also has multiple lobbies that beside their own rent-seeking are indoctrinating young voters and more and more educators are engaging in partisan politics in the classroom.

[1]: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/how-much-of-each-states-b...

Nice propaganda. LOL

Standardized tests do this?

According to one my neighbors, they just make it harder for her to do her job (as she understands it).

In my case, I score in the 95th percentile or better on just about any standardized test you cared to put in front of me, but when I finally got free of K-12 schooling I only really had three useful skills:

1. How to take a punch. 2. How to dodge a punch. 3. How to throw a punch.