>My complaint about these reforms is that the root cause of the issue is not being addressed. It becomes a question of how do we ensure every child has access

>My complaint about these reforms is that the root cause of the issue is not being addressed. It becomes a question of how do we ensure every child has access to a dedicated adult willing to tutor them and push them in education matters. Once a child begins to fail in a class, unless someone is there who can help them back onto the route of succeeding, they risk developing learned helplessness around education. Maybe a single subject, maybe education in general. It takes a lot of time for someone to work with a kid, find out what the root cause of the problem is, help them overcome that, and then build up on the topics they have fallen behind on. It helps greatly when that person isn't just there for teaching/tutoring but also invested in the child in other ways so the child values their input. When parents either don't have time, ability, or desire to do this, there is rarely a backup. Teachers try to fill the gap but they are spread too thin over too many students and rarely are with a student long enough to make a significant impact. Some teachers may even avoid it because it can quickly become an issue of favoring certain students over others. As for parents, while some parents will be able to fix the problem by having more time available, some parents lack enough education to keep helping their child past a certain point. Both finding how to give parents more time and how to educate parents enough to help their children are hard problems. As for the parents who don't have a desire to help, there might not be any solution at all.