If you’re trying to convince me it won’t be any worse if we just let them run feral in the streets, it’s not working.
My brother ( a retired engineer) recently retired from teaching. He was a math and science teacher in an inner city East Coast city school.
The kids are already feral. The government schools are designed for children of **functional** families and are utterly incapable of educating these kids.
Yet....When it comes to schools that use innovative approaches to reaching these “feral” kids ( Charters like KIPP and similar voucher schools) the teachers unions fight them at every turn.
By the way, it is my opinion that government schools do NOT teach children from functional families either! What these government schools are doing is sending home a curriculum for the parents and kids to follow. The **real** learning happens at home at the kitchen table. The **real** teaching and learning is due to the child and parents’ “afterschooling”.
**ALL** academically successful children are homeschooled. If they are institutionalized for their schooling then the parents and children are homeschooling in the form of “afterschooling”.