Originally Posted by DryClutch

A lot. Do you have kids in school?

We just went through this. If you have ever had to try to work with the administration at a public school for a specific need/situation your child might have, you'll find out how completely hosed you are and stand no chance in getting the school to make any sort of accommodation, even if its incredibly minor and requires no additional resources or work on their end. Just wait until you find out you're getting a DFACS case opened under "educational neglect" against you for your straight-A kid that you're moving mountains to try and support. Then you realize how broken parts of the system are. Whatever grade/score some website gives a school is just a sliver of a breadcrumb of the whole picture.

It's been a learning experience for us recently. I've learned if you need anything remotely outside of the rigid framework of public school, you'll have to go private or home school. You'll eventually lose in a battle with public school. Our neighbors have had to pull their kid out a lot for some kind of specialized therapy, the school is telling them that they too will get a DFACS referral and eventually sent to truancy court if they continue trying to help their kid. So unfortunate when you get to peek behind the curtain and see how it all works. The big machine is blind, unable or unwilling to think critically, and just crunches numbers in the end and hands out punishments to the parents. I truly hope you don't have to experience this.