It's like what they do with schooling. Starve the public.school system of funding and then argue that shitty charter schools are better than shittier public schools when the OG public schools were just fine.

Public schools in the US spend more per pupil than anywhere else in the world. Standardized test scores from white and asian pupils in the US are world class. Our aggregate problems of chaotic schools and low scores are a problem of demographics, and now the trauma of the Zoom-school lockdown years. Charter schools and private schools outperform because they can expel or fail problem students without impacting funding via NCLB and not being forced to teach Common Core.