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but throwing money at a problem is something stupid and lazy people do, people elected by stupid and lazy people, excuse me.

"It's vicious cycle"

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But we can fix it if we just throw more money at public schools, right?

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I know that you're being facetious, but a lack of education isn't the problem.

The problem is with all the people who are smart enough to live good, productive lives even without the old social and moral constraints that developed as the path to a decent and self-respecting life for poor, uneducated people. Those smart, well-born people decided about forty years ago to pretend the world had changed and that we didn't need any of the old rules anymore.
The poor, uneducated people followed their words (if not their actual lead) and abandoned the mores that would have worked for them.

Long story short: we've always had stupid people, but they used to be stupid, hard-working, self-respecting family people who wanted a better life for their kids. Now they are stupid, lazy hedonists who want to get fat and live off of the government while their kids run amok.