My experience with the state schools was pretty poor, overall.

It doesn’t bother me at all if blackboards are still in use, nor old desks. I’d rather good money were spent on teaching quality, rather than modernising tools and equipment. At the end of the day, if the teachers and students have great equipment but are crammed in, treated poorly, have no respect for each other, and school management has no respect for teachers, students, or parents, everything else is just fancy trimmings. Polishing a turd.

I appear to have stood out as an exception in that I queried teacher absence, lack of communication and outright indolence and apathy. It seems to be generally accepted by most parents that it has and always will be this way.

I get it that teachers are poorly paid. Yet, there are some reasonable teachers. They too are the exception.
From my limited encounters, the teaching methods seem better suited to class sizes of 5 or 6 students maximum, when in reality they are regularly much greater than 20.