How our educational system is broken and a solution

In the video that we most recently saw that was based on the educational system within the United States we learned many things that we ourselves could not believe were going on in our educational system despite of it being a main focus in our country. All this time I thought that no public school was different based on teachings but as I continued to watch the video I noticed and it was even said so in the video that schools in areas that are full of poverty tend to be pretty bad. The reason I say bad is because the students that attend those schools do not necessarily score good on tests but the people to blame for that is indeed the teachers because of their surroundings and pay could possibly be an issue. In the wealthier and middle class areas we were able to see that school is better and that the teachers that teach there are better than in impoverished areas. But combining those two together they make our educational system look bad as a whole and that is why they say that it is broken because of the fact that it is quite unfair. People are taught differently depending on their surroundings. In general though we are not that advanced and doing good as we should in our educational system because we are ranked pretty low in numerous categories and many developing countries are on top of us which is not where we should be since we are a leading nation. If you look at the fact that it isn't training people to be intelligent and skilled who can do more than just follow orders that happens outside of the public school system by and large. If you look at the problems with school violence, low academic standards, lack of response to demands of the local public, etc. then the American public school system is very broken. There can be solutions to all of these things and one that I think that should really be taken into consideration is paying teachers more because if they are paid more than they could possibly teach better since they know they are being rewarded for it.