>The pandemic showed students that adults treat them and other adults as chattel.
Exactly more than ever.
>draining education in order to have lower property taxes.
Not exactly this. There is no lower property taxes. They are trying, not very successfully, to keep property taxes from increasing as exorbitantly as they would otherwise.
Thye probably just don't want to be there.
>The pandemic showed students that adults treat them and other adults as chattel.
Exactly more than ever.
>draining education in order to have lower property taxes.
Not exactly this. There is no lower property taxes. They are trying, not very successfully, to keep property taxes from increasing as exorbitantly as they would otherwise.