The failures of the public school system are many: students are barely keeping up with baseline academic expectations, many have simply stopped showing up at all, and the resources allocated to districts to address both of these problems (totaling in the hundreds of billions of dollars) apparently have disappeared.

Worse still, our public schools have all but stopped trying to fulfill their primary purpose: training students to be engaged, responsible citizens capable of self-government. 

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