There's a big fork in the road mentally when you realize that intentions, names, and marketing are often the inverse of reality. The average person looks at the teachers they may know and thinks that these people are trying to do good things. There is zero skepticism. Then they see some things online about teachers doing stuff they don't like. Then they begin to see the surface issues but VERY few have looked into the history and structure of so called public education and its origins. Most people do not know that this agency is fairly new. They don't know how it works. They have no clue of all the redundancies between federal, state, and local administrations in education. They haven't worked with or talked to skilled educators that have left the government run institutions out of sheer frustration. They haven't worked with administrators and see the utter incompetence at work. They haven't seen the cultures that punish innovation and reward yes men/women.

Things are often not as they appear. I think our society has a pretty healthy skepticism of capitalists in the market when they sell their wares. These same people are often blind to the same issues being present in the government sector. Its a giant psyop that most people are under. What makes it worse is that most people are thinking the issue is related to political parties and THEIR team are the good guys. It has not occurred to them even in their darkest dreams that the whole system is rotten. That it is working as intended. That its more about compliance and control than equipping and strengthening. That the capitalists and the government are working hand in glove to manufacturer citizens.