There are so many factors here. Ultra-comoetitive school environments, a terrible funding model that disproportionately benefits students from wealthy families and neighborhoods, an "all in" approach to technology, corporate driven testing, textbook, and curriculum development, parenting trends, the breakdown of our wider social ecosystems, internet culture, and teachers that are not being properly trained and compensated to teach, that aren't actually qualified to be educators (teaching is its own skillset, you might be the best person in your field of expertise, that doesn't mean you could teach anyone else).

It's like a perfect storm of bad decisions. It's not the fault of the people trying to actually help these kids for the most part. Every part of the system is designed to fail everyone involved.