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People could get away with being relatively uneducated and still make a go of it. Someone could come from a simple backwoods education and still rise to be president - THEN.
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in Lincoln's time his WAS a sophisticated education. compared to our expectations he was uneducated, but when compared to his peers, be was a highly educated, learned individual.
you ask about "crappy schools". the thing is that you can never make any two schools exactly similar. if you raise the quality level of all schools (which i support) some schools will still be considered "better" and other will be considered "crappy".
that is my same complaint when people talk about raising minimum wage as a solution to the rich-poor gap. it won't change the gap one bit, it will just make the numbers different.
just as the people who make the least amount of money in a society will be considered the poor, schools who aren't "the best" will be considered "crappy".
the question is how do you make a sufficiently objective decision of what constitutes and acceptable school and what is not?