If people understood the problems better, they would make the right decisions. Unfortunately, there's a lack of education on the part of people who will vote their personal greed in failing to support school appropriations, school bonds, and school taxes. Because they don't have children or aren't interested in their own children's welfare, they put dollars and cents ahead of education. My feeling has always been that education should demand our first priority in expenditures, challenged only by public health. And I'm not so sure about that, since the solutions to public health problems depend a great deal on the education of the public in the first place.
Educators are the keystone of the successful continuation of our democracy.
So I would like to see our teachers do a better job. I know that the inspirational teacher was a rarity in my day. In particular, I found history badly taught. That's what journalism is. It's current history.