Students with learning disabilities are 3x more likely to drop out of school in the US than those without.
My ex boyfriend throughout high school was one of them. He had undx’ed disabilities because his parents didn’t care about him and the school was useless without parental intervention.
You know what would have been really good for him? To take the path that my second cousin’s kid was able to take in the UK: school until 16 and then a trade.
Instead, he dropped out and has worked dead end jobs for almost a decade.
No system is going to be perfect, but this one locks out many, many low income kids because they dared to be poor. My instate non flagship was 25k per year and that was when I graduated 4 years ago. I was able to cover it by hobbling together resourced including a very large outside scholarship that went to fewer than 50 students per year. It doesn’t exist anymore.
I was lucky. You shouldn’t have to be lucky to go to college if you have the academic chops to go.