Schools are financed by local taxes, state money and a very small amount of federal money. If you live in a poor school district and a 'poor' state the cash money simply isn't there. If you're a teacher you'd be inclined to teach at a school where the majority of kids aren't poor, raised by wolves of in the center of 'gangland'.... as many 'poor' school districts are.
Young teachers and experienced teachers burn out in these hell holes...the turn over is sometimes 50% in a semester. If you live in a state like Arizona where the entire state legislature is dominated by extreme right wingers who don't believe in 'public education' and continually rake off public money to give to 'private schools' the death cycle begins to move faster and faster. If you live in a wealthy school district where the kids are raised by over achievers, the teachers are treated with respect and the local Board of Education knows the score, that's where the next generation of leaders in every field will come from...far too few unfortunately.
Conclusion: This is a many pronged problem. In way too many states teachers are treated like $%^% by their 'conservative' overlords. Taxes are cut to appeal to what has become a 'ditto head' population of voters.
Corporate influence has crushed the 95% of citizens who work for wages...wages so low that they've provoke a family crises so severe that the kids are sent off to school without even lunch money. They attend schools that are rundown, understaffed and often manned by a demoralized teaching staff. You don't see that in schools in Beverly Hills...where I went to school.
You shouldn't see that ANYWHERE! Here's the bottom line from a former teacher....corporate America WANTS public education to fail as a series of corporate private schools that will take only the cream would be a financial windfall. Also the trans national corporations can hire all over the world.....from countries that do spend a lot of money on public education, enforce discipline on students and treat teaching as an honorable profession, not like sweat shop labor....low taxes here...let some other suckers educate our future work force.
Poor education comes from the top...if those at the top wanted world class education in every part of 'our' country that would happen. They don't, so we get what we get!
How do you expect kids to get on the Level of the rich kids with all the trimmings they need to succeed. They are not funding as they do other schools. The poor suffer learning and that seems to be fine with they Republicans.
Every thing that has happened with the poor has been a direct intervention by them.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.