I completely agree. It seems like discussions about education always devolve to an unproductive argument about who should be blamed. Who’s failing? Can we assi

I completely agree. It seems like discussions about education always devolve to an unproductive argument about who should be blamed. Who’s failing? Can we assign blame to the student? Can we be angry at teachers? Etc.. Why does this matter at all? Is the goal to inflict shame on students, teachers or their parents? Society has all kinds of people. That means brilliant students who will succeed no matter what, and it also means students who are lazy, inconsistent, distracted, have bad home lives, etc. Our nation prospers when we can figure out how to educate even kids that are difficult to educate because of circumstances or even maybe factors intrinsic to the kid like disabilities. Blame is useless. Kids become adults and if they are uneducated now it’s a real problem for everyone. Uneducated adults are more likely to be unemployed and more likely to commit crimes and less able to work and pay taxes to support the system. Now, are we going to figure out how to educate kids so that doesn’t happen or are we going to assign blame to them, then throw them into prison / welfare when they get older?