The Education Establishment's great triumph is to make themselves appear safe, not too threatening, somehow not prime players. All their bad theories and methods somehow turn up on their own, unlucky accidents. There is the big mistake that Americans
Thomas Jefferson declared: "The government you elect is the government you deserve." Wouldn't the same go for a school system? If you select it, you must deserve it.
Plato said an early version of what would later be attributed to Edmund Burke: "The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Albert Einstein put it this way: "The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it."
In education, we have a startling amount of tolerating and encouraging.