@Slide Rule I disagree. ALL children need an education,but where "we" went wrong was forgetting to monitor what the children were being taught.
Not to mention making "educators" an official government position to the point where it is almost impossible to fire them,regardless of how incompetent or purposely harmful to the American way of life they may be.
We put too much faith in degrees,and not enough focus on learning the basics.
Teachers/school systems today are free to teach any damn nonsense that the "Educators" find trendy and heart-warming to their own political biases.
Then,we,the parents,made things worse by completely ignoring what the children were being taught as long as they got good grades.