I don’t need to see the world in terms of binary tribes. Both parties are terrible. Sure, the GOP is god awful on education (as well as everything else) but even if you assume this is 100% true across the board then I still think the Dem party is equally as responsible for not articulating a competitive vision that has won more support - which should not be that hard given most people care a lot about their kids education. Blue state education outcomes are better compared to red, but blue state outcomes are still shit compared to the rest of the developed world.

I think it’s immature to frame these issues as “one party bad one party good”. Both parties suck and share equal responsibility for our problems.

Almost every teacher is a democrat if you look at global statistics in the united states and the teacher’s unions are 100% establishment democratic party supporters. Even if you make the argument republicans have ranked education on a federal level or through textbook monopolies out of Texas then don’t the dems suck by getting so easily steamrolled given they literally control the entire education system at the teacher level up through the federal bureaucracy ? have these democratic teachers unions stood in the way of meaningful reform to protect their teachers over the educational needs of the country ? It’s easy to say these republicans are stupid and mean and just want to destroy education. Nobody thinks they are the villain, including the republicans. That’s why this is not a mature opinion because you are treading a political party and it’s members like this is star wars and they are the sith. All the major cities in the US have been controlled by dems for decades. How are their inner city schools doing ?