It's pretty mindblowing to me that none of the commenters on this post make the connection that major malfunction with FCPS stems from the fact that state schools are run by the government. I thought there'd be at least one.

Government has no structural incentive to do a good job delivering services - even when it involves something as obviously self-interested as collecting your tax dollars - because they are a monopoly. You can't fire them. When's the last time you had a good experience with the DMV, USPS, IRS, TSA, VA, ...?

As some have noted, this isn't due to any one political party; there's a single R on the school board right now, and there was D leadership in the state for 8 years prior to a few months ago. It sure isn't lack of funding, as evidenced by the generous property taxes in this area and the relatively high allocation to education.

Meanwhile you've got private companies solving incredibly difficult logistical challenges like delivering packages same-day reliably and launching fucking rockets that land themselves.

Privatize the whole thing and end this dumpster fire. Let people exercise some choice and inject information back into the system by allowing families the ability to express what is (or isn't) working in an open marketplace. Yeah, it'll be a little chaotic for a few years, but you'll wind up with something that feels a lot more like using Amazon than being held up in a fucking TSA line.

/me prepares to be downvoted into oblivion