A friend told me that almost all children in her grandchild’s class were on some kind of drug.
You would think that this situation would be so terrifying to average citizens that they would want to fix it. There is an amazing acceptance of bad educational ideas throughout the society.
Here is what might be called the devil’s paradigm. You teach something incorrectly, so that most children don’t have a chance of learning it well or quickly. You don’t give them enough exercise so the kids are restless and anxious. Then when their failure begins to weigh on the students and make them more and more agitated and unhappy, you tranquilize them with Ritalin, etc.
This is why I say it would be easy to have much better schools at less cost. if you teach things correctly the first time, then there wouldn’t be the second, third and fourth time. There wouldn’t be the extra remediation, tutoring, and testing. There wouldn’t be the psychiatric services and drugs.
K-12 is a big lucrative business for a lot of people.