It's a Jobs Program
You see, despite being our nation's single greatest jobs program, our education system was never intended to create thinking individuals.
You can't blame the teachers either. Not only are they not allowed to discipline students, but they are so hamstrung by the system that actually educating is nearly impossible.
Teachers have been forced into a situation where their job is little more than babysitting. So it's no surprise that the product they are hired to create - educated students - never materializes.
But that's the real "success" our nation's schools produce: generation after generation of indoctrinated people.
For proof, look no further than the nearest college campus. There you'll find throngs of brainwashed young adults, trapped into worshipping the state as their god and following every tenet of political correctness.