Indeed. And if grandma/mom/aunt doesn’t have the desire to get out of bed and transport the child, then the child his happily stuck where he doesn’t have to do anything. In return he will recieve the best life a welfare check can buy.
Ugh.
But this brings up the point of how we go to where we are now. The people who insist that the "best welfare life" must be provided to the "underprivileged" are the same people who are running the public school systems. They are ideologically committed both to these processes and these outcomes.
If the system was committed to education, they could do what private schools do with similar populations: First, establish discipline. Second, teach phonics. Third, teach arithmetic. And so on. Even if you posit a lower than average intelligence level, the majority could achieve basic competence, just as they did under a system of discipline and 3-Rs instruction several generations ago.
The gold standard is to compare those who won the lottery to attend a private/charter school with those who did not.
In **every** study using this comparison the child who won the lottery does significantly better than the child who continues to languish in the government's single-payer K-12 indoctrination camp.