One implication is that school is viewed in society as a “one-stop shop” that should try to fix all of society’s problems, but in reality, the impact of schooling is actually limited. When students only have dysfunctional families to return to after they graduate and the legal system fails them, their schooling can only help them in a limited way. I see this concept when students come to my school hungry, in dirty clothes, and without their backpack. Sometimes parents are at the end of their rope in their own lives and the best they can do is just get their child to school physically and then try to deal with their own personal issues. Yet it is the school that is expected to solve every problem in this child’s life, and if something bad happens to the child, it is seen as a failing of the school.