If you don't think

That there is a causal link between THIS...
And
THAT...
Then you are either too dumb for help or hopelessly self deluded.

Every time, the income gap in this country between the rich and the poor widens, listen to the pious shrieks for increasing money for education, Prussian discipline in the classroom, endless standardized tests for teachers and students and a fifty two hour school day.

Frankly I'd love to give some of those beloved standardized tests to a cross section of congressmen, local pundits and school committee members, the results would be highly suggestive to say the least.
And why do we endure all this mishaugas? Because the working class in the country is vanishing and the middle class is about to become the pathetic stunted lackey of the overclass...education for a job is supposed to resolve a economy that benefits too few at the expose of far too many.
Hey I've got a solution for income disparities in this country, how about we try HIGHER WAGES?
I mean shit it worked for FDR...or are we not supposed to say that anymore?
Humble Elias is no Marxist (I no more believe in Dialectical Materialism than I believe in Noah's Ark) but you have to admit there is some serious false consciousness in play out there when it comes to education policy.