School system sounds broken/stupid as hell then.
Long story short version is that in America, the "no child left behind" stratagem of the wonderfully brilliant man that was known as Bush Jr, decided to give out funding based on perceived educational effectiveness. IE: A school that has higher marks
must be benefiting its students better, as numbers don't lie.
Except when the people putting those numbers down realize that funding is tied to passing and achievement rates, ergo schools which lack the ability to educate properly end up with large numbers of failing students. This causes their budgets to be slashed, which further exacerbates the problem.
If you've ever wondered why American inner city schools with loads of minorities tend to be some of the most garbage educational facilities in the first world, this is why. They're underfunded, fail to pass students in numbers equal to better-off counterparts even as they shove
literally illiterate students through to the next grade, and get their funding cut for it. A significantly better system would be to provide based on the needs on a case-by-case basis, because any predictable system for funding based on grade
scores rather than
value of education will be gamed. Not even for necessarily malicious means: If school A wants enough money to be able to fund its science division, they might just have to shove a few failing students out the door.
This, in turn, hurts the already dwindling value of a high school diploma, which hurts everyone leaving high school who can't afford to go into post secondary and thus needs a job in the interim. Folks like me, I might add.
Note: The flaw with a case-by-case basis system is obviously that you'd have to hire thousands of people to investigate school districts. In the US this is compounded by states setting educational standards and curriculum rather than the federal level, meaning that the thousands of people you hire
also have to be specially trained and versed in the specific needs of 51 different states. (This isn't even including non-incorporated territories.) This isn't cheap, nor is this particularly fast. The whole system is so choked in a bureaucratic morass that addressing it as a whole will require a thousand tiny cuts rather than a single swing of a giant "fix it" hammer.
Also, if you want to change it, prepare to get swarmed by millions of ideological radicals who will scream about nonsensical shit, like "put god back in school" or "ban all durr religionz". So not only are you fighting a megalithic system with enough red tape to make congress blush, you're
also fighting a dozen different radical groups that would
commit suicide if they thought it would help get their brainwashing material into the public education system.
On the bright side... Uhhh...
These ferrets are adorable.