I agree; it is an excellent question.
I return to work tomorrow in a vile, evil, bottom-sucking public school wherein I am going to do everything I can to help all my kids be successful.
Some will walk across the stage with a diploma in May, and some will not. Unfortunately, when you are not destined to enter college at 12, 13, or 12 because you have a functional IQ of 65, there is only so much I or any teacher can do.
Perhaps one of the rabid homeschoolers can shed some light on how to educate students with well-defined, serious learning deficits to help them enter college at an exceptionally young age or now for that matter.
And I think my Freeping will be curtailed exceptionally because I do have to work and not stay at home, scour the Internet for anything I can find to condemn public education.
However, the last time I checked, there are an exceptional number of people who are 1. killed; 2. hurt; 3. left in a permanent vegetative state because of serious medical malpractice. I cannot think of a single student in my career that I have reduced to permanent vegetative state because I tried to get them to learn. (Off topic and spurious I know, but it brings up a valid point against those who swear the education system is creating nothing of value)
Because Wintertime has freedom of association, on your way to doing good works your saintly shadow will probably pass without cooling his fevered prejudiced brow. His misfortune, and his right to choose.