Instapundit Glenn Reynolds likes to say sending your children to public schools is parental malpractice, bordering on child abuse. Here Power Line's "charts guy" Steven Hayward has the numbers from the Washington Post.
If you want to place blame for this state of affairs, blame the teachers unions: the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers. Correlation doesn't necessarily equal causation, but the unions got powerful at the same time the schools got crappy, and woke.
