Is Your Kid’s School a Failure Factory? Chris Papst on Failing Schools and Why Common Sense Left the Building (+ 3 Ways to Reclaim Your Child’s Future)

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Today on The Literacy Keys, we are diving deep into a topic that is often whispered about but rarely confronted head-on: the reality of failing schools.

I’m joined by award-winning investigative reporter Chris Papst, author of The Failure Factory, to pull back the curtain on the institutional gaps that leave so many of our neurodiverse learners behind. If you’ve ever felt like your child was just a number on a spreadsheet or that common sense doesn't exist during a frustrating IEP meeting, this episode about failing schools is for you.

We often find ourselves asking, "why are public schools…