Maybe... just maybe... it's because public schools have veered off the academic course and became obvious centers of fringe-left programming.In Washington, the democrat-controlled Office of the Superintendent of Instruction provides the statewide figures democrat control of our education plant and Legislature have provided us: we spending more billions now than ever, and the results are likely worse than ever. In this state, less than 51% meet their grade standard in English, 39% in math, 43% in Science.The dropout rate is 16.4%, only 70% of the kids attend school regularly, but 84% graduate, which is inexplicable grade inflation.In Oregon, any literal idiot can graduate from high school since the state yanked all graduation requirements. Stay in school, breath in and out, and you get a worthless piece of paper they call a diploma.If you're even a reasonably intelligent student, why on earth would you want to waste time in these centers for leftist inculcation that are horrific at producing respectable academic results?And what's worse?Parents don't care. The people paying the bills, i.e., the taxpayers, don't care. Several billion dollars wasted every year and what do we have to show for it?And people watching this seem to be utterly mystified as to why kids are blowing off schools, schools that offer nothing worth the time of these children for a system and a society that simply doesn't give a damn enough to do what has to be done to change it.Instead, the teacher's unions own the democrats like the 13th Amendment is the 13th Suggestion and we not only reward mediocrity, we encourage it. And we get it.Our schools are all too frequently allowed to sink down to the level, of overcrowded cesspools. Students are assaulted on a daily basis, frequently killed by other students, beaten to death or crippled. Female athletes are destroyed by fake male athletes and the left applauds when the blood is spilled... and students are generally ignored when it comes to bullying and pathetic excuses for teachers who KNOW they don't have to perform because they're not held accountable for their horrific results.There's no mystery in why so many now are blowing off school. If there is a mystery, it's why any kid at all bothers to show up with unresponsive school boards bent far more on political inculcation and grooming kids for gender changes than they are the horrific academic outcomes public schools these days typically provide.In spades.