1) You're absolutely right. But your ideological solutions to the problem are an attempt to impose your political correctness on the system, not solve what are essentially administrative and organizational issues. In my opinion, the major thing we need do to clean up the schools is allow teachers and principals to discipline students, just like they did when we were students. Get the troublemakers out, and the rest will settle down.

2) Utter bilge. Your rants about politics are paranoid fantasies. The only politics I saw taught in grade, middle and high schools were pretty much the present Republican playbook: rabid anticommunism, racism and Fundamentalist Protestant prayers, in homeroom and civics class. As for your usual incoherent noises against unions, that's just too bad. You don't want ANY workers unionizing, but they all have the Right (as well as the necessity) to do so. Characterizing union activity as leftist politics is the oldest fascist lie in the book.

3) What free choice is denied? It has never been illegal to send your kids to private school. Not before and not now. Nothing is stopping you from paying a private firm or church for your own kid's education. What you want is privatization, tax-subsidized private schools so you can starve public schools of public funds, ingratiate yourself with your knuckle-dragging, banjo-plucking, trailer trash allies so they can teach creationism and other right wing doctrine to their larvae at my expense.

I choose not to participate.