this appears to be a laundry list of made up facts and presumed conclusions to defend a failing system from the inside.

schools are not "traumatized by poverty" to some unprecedented degree. recent decades have had the least poverty in american history.

the kids in schools are unsafe there, fail to learn basic skills, and education has slid into indoctrination.

name 3 products that the government provides better than a free market. it would be trivial to do so much better with schools. take the same money spent now, give each kid a $15k voucher, and let them spend it as they like. let schools experiment, specialize, and learn what works. most of all, make them compete and the level will rise massively. competition breeds competence.

charter schools are made to compete on an uneven field with less money and loads of overwhelming regulation and overhead. that's not free market, it's stifling real competition .

education absolutely works like the private sector. everything does. there are no "special cases" immune from the rules of economics and human behavior and if this is what's being taught, you're only further convincing me of the desperate need for change.

sounds to me like you're just invested in perpetuating the problem.

if your system is so good and effective and cannot be outperformed, why does it fear competition?