A conspiracy of silence continues to block any objective media coverage of what is actually happening to public education; it remains a closely guarded secret in plain sight, where nobody bothers to look. This dirth of knowledge has everything to do with corporate ownership of both commercial and public media, which continues to censor any news that might contradict their masters' move to privatize the $2 trillion a year public education "business". What makes inferior segregated public education possible is that no regulatory agency is willing or capable of taking action against segregated and failing public schools in clear violation of laws that should hold them responsible.Yet, good teachers still try to develop real thinking skills and show students that they are capable of learning everything, even if the system doesn't really think they can or want them to.