Education in the U.S. has had funding cut since the "sainted" Great Prestigitator, Ronnie Ray-Gun. Also thanks to him, if government was the primary enemy, teachers and unions weren't far behind. This has become an entrenched U.S. credo.

Over the last 30+ years, the U.S. has raised up generation upon generation of undereducated, ignorant, self-absorbed toddlers who, if they don't get immediate gratification, throw tantrums - as with the last election cycle & the bogus Republican "mandate".

This was BY DESIGN - & the situation will not change; if it did, among other things, there would be no delusional TeaBagger contingent and the Republican Party would get far fewer votes following a reduction in the percentage of the population who are morons.

Get used to it.