This is a function of how schools are funded in the US. This is the system you asked for through voting and tax policy (maybe not you, but you being the broad citizen).
Living inside the beast for my entire career - We have just enough funding to keep the doors open, and remain staffed at a minimal level. Additional funding, above what we can raise through local taxes, ALWAYS comes with an asterisk.
So we can get access to $50,000 supplemental funding this year, awesome. But we have to buy I-pads. Nevermind that literally every other piece of technology in the building is windows based. Oh, and we cannot spend that on infrastructure upgrades to the wi-fi system to support the extra capacity. And it has to be spent in six months or you lose it.
It's the way we're funded in the US. It isn't necessarily a function of the schools or the staff therein. Those people are generally trying to do their best.
It's the shit system and it needs to be burnt to the ground.
