Let's be factual, she married into the MLM family riches. Her own family was super rich because of a patent which is a totally different scheme where you skim some wealth of lots of other people's work without really contributing anything to society.

That seems like an ungenerous characterization of patents. There are issues with them but I wouldn’t say that it’s primarily a mechanism to skim some wealth of lots of other people’s work.

That's literally the original historical purpose, and some would argue still effectively is, but yeah patents have a great PR team.

Fortunately for the united states school is funded at the state level.

Unfortunately for the US "funding" can mean "public money is channeled to corporate monopolies which own various markets for teaching resources."

It's also managed at the school level, which means all kinds of people with eccentric belief systems are motivated to take over school boards and force their issues on others.

But elements of curriculum design are also created semi-centrally. So you can get the worst of all possible worlds, with corporations skimming money from classrooms while faddy ineffective teaching techniques collide with school board skirmishes.

In Texas textbooks and curriculum is state level mostly. Idiots on school boards don’t have much to do with what is taught. And definitely not in important classes like math. And most funding goes to the schools not corporations