Can you see now why I have this cynical attitude? And we have some of the best public schools around. The only schools that were consistently better were magnet schools like Thomas Jefferson in Alexandria where smart people from all around congregate. And then they proposed a terrible new standardised class schedule, so I helped form a student protest group, proving mathematically that the new schedule screwed over a bunch of students and classes, and my mom testified against it, and parents and students all around did...
And they just did it anyways. That's what you get when they aren't an elected position...