Why is it so difficult to reform American primary and secondary education?

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Honestly, introduce groups in the context of symmetry and I'm sure primary kids could understand algebra.
Basic discrete math and linear algebra can be understood by middle schoolers.
Calculus should be standard for high schools, not only for """exceptional""" students.
Concepts such as complex variables, probability, combinatorics, and even graph theory can be introduced or taught at a deeper level than they are right now to middle and high school students.

Moving beyond math, students could be taught finance, homesteading, and cooking. English and history could be actual classes instead of slavery/holocaust class. Science classes could teach science instead of trivial vocabulary and "plug and chug" equations with no motivation.

Instead, most American students graduate high school with
>Literacy that hasn't advanced past the 6th grade
>Less knowledge of rudimentary mathematics than the fucking ancient greeks
>Broken and unmotivated "knowledge" of a foreign language that they will never use
>Practically zero knowledge of the sciences except for literal baby-tier vocabulary and unmotivated formulae
>No preparation for financial planning or living independently
>Brainwashed and communist understanding of history
>No job prospects beyond menial labor that a robot will replace in a decade
>Their desire to learn has been sapped at a young age so many don't go to college, and even less actually graduate from college

Despite all these problems, the only talks about "reforming" education currently taking place are
>Bus rides for poor blacks to schools they haven't ruined yet
>Critical race theory being introduced at a young age
>Free lunches for illegal aliens
>Guns for teachers

No one is addressing the real problem, which is that the curriculum and it's educators are dogshit. But why is no one trying to fix it? It's the children of the nation, the future, yet they are being wasted in their prime developmental stages.