The problem I believe is three fold: 1. Lack of discipline. Parents are less likely to discipline their children and don’t want schools to either. Admins are

The problem I believe is three fold: 1. Lack of discipline. Parents are less likely to discipline their children and don’t want schools to either. Admins are reluctant to remove problem students from classrooms and even more reluctant to suspend or expel them because of… 2. Metrics and Data Around the early 2000 the fed, states, and districts became obsessed with data. The problem is the people making decisions are not researchers and even if they were they would probably still go down the wrong route because they fail to identify causations vs correlation. So schools are obsessed with minimizing referrals, suspensions, and expulsions because they are correlated with low graduation rates. They are obsessed with test scores. So much so that much of the school year is spent prepping for or taking standardized tests. 3. Lack of Backing from Community Parents are questioning everything teachers are doing and in my school district some parents are convinced teachers are trying to turn their kids trans or queer. Book banning is at an all time high from parents who have never read the books they are trying to ban.