Just pull the plug: they're educrats, therefore brain dead.

Jerry Pournellediscovers that “educators” in California think they can do better than King Canute. “…the State of California officially insists that all children in the public school system be educated to above average. I will explain and do a short essay on that, but I am not making it up. The D.Ed. types in Sacramento apparently were so deficient in their math education that they do not understand that this is impossible.” Heh