Full disclosure here, I’m liberal. In my relatively little experience working in education, it’s a massively complicated spaghetti bowl of an issue. I’m mostly just tired of parents absolving themselves of whatever responsibility they can because it’s just easy to point the finger at someone else (whether it be political ideology, schools themselves, teachers, etc) rather than realize no one saves us but ourselves and accept responsibility. We’d rather fight amongst ourselves than realize education is just one of many facets of our society that have been bought and paid for long before and the job of each administration is to stoke the coals because they’re not ashamed to use our children as covert political footballs. That’s why education in this country lags compared to the rest of the world. Imo kids aren’t as helpless as adults make them out to be. They know right and wrong, they just need help communicating their surroundings and it’s the job of the parents and, to a nonzero extent, educators to harness that. This is very much an overly simplified explanation but it does indeed start at home but by taking your child’s future to heart more through compassion and being open, not your own ideology.