Breaking news! Schools can't fix suboptimal family life. My mum is a special ed teacher in a poor, rural, redneck corner of New England. Many of the students o

Breaking news! Schools can't fix suboptimal family life. My mum is a special ed teacher in a poor, rural, redneck corner of New England. Many of the students on her caseload only get anything approaching decent food from the school lunch program. Their broken, mixed up, drunk and drugged out parents can't even keep their own shit together, let alone bear the responsibilities of raising a child. Not surprisingly, if tragically, the child suffers.