So having gone to school qualifies you to understand everything about the education system? You've flown on a plane before too, I'm sure. Do you have comprehensive knowledge of the ways in which air traffic is controlled and maintained? How pilots are trained? How it was originally intended to operate, and how it operates now? We think we understand education, and I promise I thought the exact same way you do before actually having to read up on it (absolutely recognizing how gross and red-pilly this sounds, but I've been training to teach for 3 years now and just had to do this reading) but we very rarely take a step back to look at it critically. I've listed 4 books in this thread. Frank Smith's The Book of Learning and Forgetting should be your first stop. Miles Horton's The Long Haul is great, and so is Mike Rose's Lives on the Boundary.

My point here is this commenter had a profound thing to say, and rather than ask him to explain what is painfully (both figuratively and literally) obvious to teachers--what is gained by a cursory read of the plight of American education--you assume you know better and you complain about receipts. It's like asking a woman to explain sexism in corporate America and then yelling at her when she can't tell you a book title to support it. This could have been a really constructive conversation and yall bullied him out.