"This shit's been going on for close to thirty years. The time to stop it was then. People bought into the so-called "business model" of education, and education has been seriously fucked since."

Not sure what side of the pond you're on, Guest 999, but education this side has been seriously fucked and getting worse since the '60s when Comprehensive schools were introduced.
From my own, short lived, experiences of teaching in Derby, the biggest obsticle in the way of improving the system is the "Local Education Authority," with it's entrenched left wing bias that seems to survive changes of council administration.