text: "The government education industry led by teachers unions has risked and lost 30 to 40 years of generational kids."
  Source?  I'm a middle aged product of Alaska's public education system.  A graduated from UAA and went on to attain a doctoral degree (though I won't narrow the field saying it was at least a T2 school).  My personal experience and those of some of my friends indicates to the otherwise.
  
  "Competition is the only thing that will change our K12 ed system."
  Source?  Public education doesn't seem to be an issue in Asian cultures where teachers are respected, education is given great deference and parents are typically an active part of their child's education (though not always to the better regarding China's norm for cheating).
  
  "Check out how many prison inmates"
  Because prison inmates are in any way representative of the normal child's experience in public education, ie. you are trying to support your case with radical/outlier examples?