No, he&#x27;s correct for many schools.  I had to attend a few of these schools when I was young (this was back in the 80s BTW).  Even in one of the top-ranked and best-funded middle schools in my state, I had an English teacher who just gave us some busywork and watched soap operas on her portable TV.  In the crappier school I went to before that in the poor part of town, most of the classes amounted to babysitting.<p>I don&#x27;t know how it&#x27;s changed since then, but I doubt it&#x27;s gotten any better, though this was before the days of Common Core and statewide testing and all that.  From my perspective of what I saw as a kid, some teachers were good and really tried to teach kids well, other teachers were terrible and did the absolute minimum, if that.  There was no consistency, though the schools with poorer kids did seem to have more bad teachers.  So from my perspective, the problem seemed to be two-fold: incompetent administrators, and crappy teachers who couldn&#x27;t get rated on job performance and fired.  The good teachers hung in there despite the institutional and systemic problems.