This is how they create slaves out of citizens

Step one:  Create government schools.

Step two:  Turn government schools into pits of Marxist insanity, but mandate that all kids have to go there.

Step three:  Destroy any ability to teach kids the basics (whole lot of blame to go around on this one).

Step four:  Announce that kids don't actually have to be proficient.

And you're left with a population that has not learned, and cannot teach themselves, and thus are entirely dependent on the government.  They'd better vote the right way, eh?  Or their monthly welfare check might just not come at all.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – High school students won’t have to be “proficient” in either math or English to graduate, under minimum required test scores proposed by State Superintendent Paolo DeMaria.

They will just need to know enough to do the most basic of jobs.

"The most basic of jobs".  Like vote for their government masters.  Public school is a disgrace, and you'd be better off throwing your kids into a pit of feral wolves and telling them to learn.  As Insty likes to say, Public School is simply child abuse.

Burn the Department of Education to the ground, and then salt the earth where it once stood.