Thank you for your comment. I completely agree with what you're saying about misaligned standards/incentives in k12 education and how that can, and does, create

Thank you for your comment. I completely agree with what you're saying about misaligned standards/incentives in k12 education and how that can, and does, create really rough experiences for students. Some of the best educational environments I have had the opportunity to work inside of have been small classroom alternative programs. The kids brought with them massively diverse challenges/needs - but the environments lacked the same "benchmark" cultural pressures that regiment standard classrooms. Teachers had the time and opportunity to figure out what each kid needs AND the time and opportunity to build learning experiences around those needs. In a standard classroom, the teacher will often completely understand the former but remain logistically/circumstantially unable to provide the latter. We will never have the number of classrooms that can provide that level of support because it would explode the budget of schools. It's probably part of the answer, though.