Keep the people dumb (public education), fat, and happy and you can do whatever you want to them. Welfare does exactly that.
I think back to my public ed teachers and Im glad I had them.
They had expectations of standards and they actually sparked life long desires that paid dividendes for me.
They are dead now but I wish I could thank them.
They are much different from what my kids get today and the kids went to the same grade school I went to.
In my day it was all about performance and effort.
Now all I hear teachers talk of is "New paradigm", "Thinking outside of the box", "Diverse learning ability", all a bunch of trite shit to tell me we are dumbing your kid down to accept loss of freedom.