Teacher's union kills charter schools, which are by and large much better at educating kids. It's also almost impossible to fire a public school teacher, no matter what garbage they're teaching or how badly their students are failing.
Education, especially during k-12, is incredibly influential on the outlook of any child, because their brains are still elastic and developing. That's why many people never change their mind about anything, ever, due to what they learned during their formative years. And it's just as bad post-highschool. Teachers and professors are supposed to teach you *how* to think, not what to think. How to reason, be skeptical, be self-critical, interrogate all ideas to distill what is actually true, no matter how uncomfortable the conclusion. That's what education should be.
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