and why are their children still in the schools?
I see people who expect that the schools are going to give them and their children what they want whether it be for special accommodations, 504s, and they are shocked when they don’t get what they are SUPPOSED to get.
Schools are there for the convenience, employment and benefits of the teachers and admin. Everything else that a child gets is a bonus point not a requirement.
In this toxic world sending your child to school is an act against the child. Do I think that there are wonderful and effective teachers and caring administrators? Absolutely, but they are caught in a system that is poisonous.
My wife retired from primary spec ed teaching a year ago. She says she was able to continue in it because spec ed is the ugly stepchild of the school system and administration ignores it so she could actually teach real academic things to those of her kids who could absorb them. Some of her kids were reading and ciphering way beyond their peers when "mainstreamed" after a year or two with the wife. She could use phonics and real traditional arithmetic and other antiquated and banned things.