If there's one thing that corporatist Americans hate it's the idea of a level playing field.
Anything that can possibly be done to limit competition between the elites' kids and others' kids... And, really, who cares about having a stupid general public when money flows internationally?
In inner cities such as Milwaukee, there is a significant issue in education and it has little to do with anything other than parenting. Some kids are violent and disruptive. In public schools, it is nearly impossible to remove these kids from public schools unless they violently attack a teacher. Even then, they are simply shuffled to another public school which has to take them. Go into any MPS school where the kids are running around, talking loudly, ignoring the teacher, etc... and tell me how this can ever work. It is one thing if a kid does poorly, it is another thing when that kid actively inhibits the learning process for the rest of the students. The problem is cultural, entrenched and worsening. This is why private schools look so good in comparison. They simply kick the disruptive and poorly performing students out. The inner city public school are thus filled with the absolute worst behaving kids in the state.
There is no possible solution. Our society will eventually fall as this malaise spreads and eventually crumbles the entire infrastructure. I figure I will be dead by the time it happens but I imagine my grandkids will be around to see America fall back into 3rd world conditions. Asia is the future, they haven't been poisoned yet. They may be the only hope for humanity's long term survival.