A productive education system should dedicate resources to students equally with voluntary options for students who perform outside the norm. That means not disproportionately dedicating resources to students who fail aside from tutoring outside class. Some students just deserve to fail. It is better find that out early instead of lying to children that everything is great and kicking the can down the road to the shock of adulthood.

Teachers are not parents. They have limited time and resources to devote to a specified area of instruction divided amongst a number of students. Some parents are extreme failures in their responsibility which performs the greatest disservice to a child. This is how I ended up with a foster child with emotional trauma. Teachers must not be expected to perform the job of a parent just because some parents are so horribly bad at being parents.

IMHO education is about giving everyone the u same opportunity, regardless of social circumstances. Evey study I know of shows, that the later you start to separate children the better of they are globally. That means that a school system faced with tremendous social imbalances has to ready to cope, and cover, those.

Higher educated parents have it easier helping their children with homework. They have the money and time for extra tutoring. Lower education equals less capabilities to support with homework, most often less time and certainly less money for extra tutoring. If a system is such you only succeed when you fall in the first group, it sucks. Supporting such a system, wholeheartedly as some on here seem to, is just cold hearted.

So what should we do? throw children in the steet to die?

Quality foster homes are in extreme low suppply.

Children need care, and schools are whar we have. We need more therapists and parental substitutes, not fewer.

Dedicating resources equally has never been how government works in any area. If that's how government works, why have government at all? Just let people handle themselves.

I believe a large portion of HN visitor got their lunch money stolen and toys broken by these loser kids. Bullied kids grow up to despise bullies, and bullying usually goes hand-in-hand with being a poor student

The worst bullies I saw where from well off families. Still weren't the brightest, but that had definitely nothing to do with social circumstances. In fact, those socially handicapped kids were those being bullied. That was on a German Gymnasium, so on the road to higher education.

Obviously, social dynamics will be different in lower tier schools. I do have the impression that we are not discussing those here.

Also, being bullied is a poor excuse of becoming a bully yourself.