Socio economic reasons are a big part of this. Providing education for ESL students isn't cheap. Most ESL is for low income students whose parents don't pay for private lessons.
If you take all middle class and above students and above the US figures well compared to other countries.
So it's not that how we go a out educating is off... It's just that educating such a diverse student population with the economic and social characteristics is more difficult than when you have a more homogeneous culture.
> If you take all middle class and above students and above the US figures well compared to other countries.
While that is probably true, it doesn't mean we still don't have a problem.
You can't just "write off" more than half of your population unless you start talking things like Basic Income. And the size of the middle class has been decreasing, so there are more and more children who fall under that line.
If you take all middle class and above students and above the US figures well compared to other countries.
So it's not that how we go a out educating is off... It's just that educating such a diverse student population with the economic and social characteristics is more difficult than when you have a more homogeneous culture.