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because in the USA we hate teachers. it's really that stupid and simple. and we hate poor people even more than we hate teachers... and most public teachers are automatically poor people due to horrible wages.
teachers are now viewed as professionals worth of respect. they are seen as losers who failed at life and deserve to be punished and hated for it. they are seen as inherently lazy for choosing it as a profession. teachers are public servants, and public servants are all leeches on society.
it was this way growing up for me, and it's even worse today. and all our public policies and funding around education reflect this.
our society loves to go on about education, but in practice is essentially anti-education.
the last time the USA made public investments in education was post ww2, because of the Soviets. Then we rapidly clawed it all back during the 1980s and it's been in decline for 50 years now. we did that because we had an existential threat and were in competition with the Soviets. Once we 'won' we no longer had any need to care about education and we essentially have a two-tier system of seduction, one for the rich that is the best in the world, and one for everyone else that is on par developing nations.
If you come here and got to spend a day in a rich school vs a poor school, your mind would be blown. One will be doing amateur rocketry, and the other can't even do basic arithmetic or reading.