Are you criticizing him for pointing out that university should be a meritocracy and being unable to keep up with the course work is a good indication that you shouldn ' t be there ? <| sep |> Then you wouldn ' t assign blame to the federal government for funding problems . Yeah because American citizens have the right to an education and it ' s the underpinning of our democracy . Yeah that ' s going to result in people who don ' t want to be educated being forced to go to school and learn . Does that result in waste because those students don ' t achieve their potential ? Sure . However it ' s for our national security that we have citizens who can read , do math , etc . Hence the point , public education is a public good . Yes if states act in ways that violate people ' s civil rights , the federal government is charged to intervene . Yes teacher groups will lobby for policies that are sensible to them . The US Chamber of Commerce and farmers do the same and you aren ' t exactly up in arms about it . I think you assign blame on school management regardless if there are things that affect student performance outside of school management . Violence , sexual abuse , homelessness , poverty , parental involvement , etc . also play a huge role . The school has zero control of these factors . If there are clearly multiple things at work causing the problem , it makes no sense to assign 100 % of the blame to 10 % of the cause . And to be honest , your elected officials in Texas , who are not historians , chose to eliminate Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers out of the curriculum because they didn ' t conform with those officials ' beliefs . Please put them on your chopping block too . By the way , I ' m saying this as someone who has had shitty teachers and administrators , and saw future shitty teachers being trained in college . Despite that , the vast majority were good and gave enough of a damn to forego more lucrative career in another profession . They chose to deal with every one else ' s snot nosed brats whose parents and decide to malign them instead of taking responsibility for their own failings .