There are only criminal gangs fighting over territories covering drugs, gambling, prostitution, and other victimless crimes. Making a non-violent activity a crime creates a black market, which attracts criminals and gangs, which turns what was once a relatively harmless activity affecting a small group of people into a widespread epidemic of drug use and gang warfare. Every attempt to fix education through national standards, testing, vouchers, charter schools, or some other Band-Aid amounts to just another government program that requires you to continue fighting to make the program work as you want. If someone dumped garbage on your property every day, you'd call the police and get them to stop the trespasser from polluting your property. Then, when public outrage became overwhelming, the government responded by passing new laws and setting up new agencies that harass companies and property owners who have always kept far better care of their property than the government has.
Government rewards it.
The only jobs saved by protectionism are those of the politicians and bureaucrats who get to decide what we will be allowed to buy. Trade barriers have never protected a sinking industry for very long. Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone. We elect a Republican president and government gets bigger. We elect a Democratic president and government gets bigger.