The public education system in this country has been appalling for a good many years now.
I recall finding hundreds of of typographical errors, spelling mistakes and just patently untrue gobbledy-gook in just
one of my daughter's school issued 3rd grade textbooks 20 years ago.
When I approached the Board of Education (armed with the offending textbook) and pointed out the trash they were foisting on our children in the name of educating them, they were grossly offended and I was informed that the books were ordered from a distributor in California who regularly out-sourced their proof reading to Mexico and Honduras.
I responded that I didn't care
where they were proof read, in my considered opinion, a proof reader should be able to recognize mistakes regardless of where they were located.
I was then informed that it was the Board of Education's money (oddly, I was under the impression that my state and municipal taxes funded the BOE and rightfully it was
our money) and they would spend it when and where they saw fit.
So, from that day forward, I've chosen to spend
my money on private schools for her (and the
rest of my kids). And don't even get me started on the illiterates who graduate just because the system passed them to get rid of them...