… in mice.

Sorry - that was reflexive: “… in the US”.

I don’t think there’s any great mystery here. Every few years, you guys elect a bunch of people for whom active sabotage of public education is a sine qua non to political gerrymandering strategies driven by the self-preservation instincts of lobbyists.

The quality has gone down substantially in my EU member country. The kids can barely read and do simple arithmetic.