I think your point is valid and can even be drawn more broadly. Yes, this is horrible, but there's a way that we all share the blame for this. Society's expecta

I think your point is valid and can even be drawn more broadly. Yes, this is horrible, but there's a way that we all share the blame for this. Society's expectations for what education should accomplish have gone through the roof, but nobody wants to commit the resources that are actually required to make it happen. Instead, what we get is more and more top-down legislation, based on questionable research, written by people who don't actually have to deal with real kids day in and day out, that dumps more and more burdens on teachers who are already at the end of their ropes and with insufficient support.