@MaryGJ , interesting post. I can see the humor in calling public schools jail schools… Both my kids were in ‘special’ classes- subsets of the primary school but with cohort type class sizes for 4 years. S went the ‘Governor’s school’ route and graduated from HS with 22 college credits. D went the STEM program route and studied engineering in HS. Whenever either kid would act up or complain about school and the amount of work they had to do (lots more than regular classes), I would tell them they could return to ‘general population’.
And before I get flamed, I greatly appreciate teacher/instructors and the work they do and think the USA is doing a great disservice to the teaching profession. But there are schools out there that do not have enough resources to do a good job.
There are also parents out there that do NOT do a good job and those kids end up sitting in classes being lazy, and disturbing the learning of kids who do want to go on to college. Unfortunately, the teachers are the ones who get stuck in the middle.
I’m glad your D is doing well and congratulations, despite all your efforts! 