Utter nonsense. You are brainwashed. Much poorer countries do better than ours and you blame the class system? The unions don't protect incompetent teachers? Make it difficult to get rid of them?Yep. The US gets ripped off more than any other country with education. The union has totally screwed us. I haven't heard of any company moving because the country had socialized medicine. What's your source? The fact is it is ungodly expensive to do business here with more regulations every day.
Here's where you need to get a clue. It's not the unions that are screwing up the education system. It's the class structure built into the education system. Only the children of the wealthy or the middle class are going to get a decent education, because resources aren't allocated equally across the system. Charter schools don't have to accept students with learning or behavioural disabilities. They can cherry pick who they accept, leaving the public school having to stretch it's budget to provide for these children, as well as their regular students.
The charter school is going to have better test scores because they've eliminated anyone who might skew their test results lower. Which will lead those who can afford it to move their kids to the charter school, thereby further starving the public school system. There are also a lot of parents who put their children into charter or Christian schools which are all white and they freely admit they don't want their kids mixing with non-whites.
The USA is one of two NATO countries which spends less on the children of the poor, than they do for the children of the rich. Turkey is the other.
LOL!
I live in a country which refuses to allow charter schools for just this reason. Oh, and our kids, who do get the benefit of equal funding across the board, we're #7. Your schools don't even make the top 10. And all of our school boards are unionized. You're #18. With the first world's only income stratified education system.
GOP keeps telling you its the unions, because they have discovered the higher your level of education, the less likely you are to vote Republican. In other words, the smarter you are, the less likely you are to fall for their bullshit. That's why they demonize public schools and called the educated "elitist". They want to destroy public education because it keeps turning out people who won't vote against their own best interests.