don't think there is enough intervention in the early grades;
   2nd-4th grade, I think are critical to weed out the "bad kids"
   (who can't help themselves and need medication and a different
   type of school) - and to prevent bullies from forming. Beyond
   4th grade, well, I think the pattern is pretty well set.* Not
   impossible to fix, but far more difficult. It's not that
   "socializing" isn't important; but why should people have to go
   to school with future criminals, future serial killers, future
   wife-beaters all mixed together?** How does that help for a
   better functioning society?* Never understood that.* And if
   socializing is so important, how come there's no structure to
   it?** Why does every generation of kids have to figure it out
   for themselves the 'hard way'?* Ridiculousness.* What doesn't
   kill you make you stronger?* No - not everybody.* Nobody should
   fall off the bell curve and into the firepit.