Maybe. Take one example (from where I happen to live right now). In South Bend, Indiana, half of the students who attend South Bend's public schools will not graduate from high school. Half! And I'm sure South Bend isn't alone.
They're trying to do something about it; for example, South Bend schools have a "mentor" program, in which adults spend an hour a week with a public school child, in some cases from first grade through 12th, in order to be a role model and provide advice. They have 300 mentors right now. They want to expand it to 6,000. Good luck to them. But how did they ever allow the situation to get so desperate.
