I recall when the public schools I attended, racially biased as they were, provided a very robust education. As an example, and it's not because I'm claiming exceptional intellect, but I attended a shitload of public schools and I quit by the ninth grade yet twenty-five years later I was able to enroll in university studies and come out with two degrees, without having attended high school or any other remedial or in between formal schooling. Sure I worked and went to trade school and learned a whole lot from that but it wasn't like actually going to college.
The public school system started failing before Reagan, see Boston bus riots of the early 1970s, but he put his foot on its neck and pressed hard, the foot is still there. From failing grade schools to research in the academic world requiring private sector funds for any kind of research at all which ends up with biased studies and skewed results, there has been a coordinated campaign to destroy the great equalizer, widespread knowledge.
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