Well I was luckier than you Carol as, although a classic dyslexic from an inpoverished background, I recieved an excellent education from teachers, who, although they had no concept of my inabilty to spell and absolutely dreadful dysgraphia, nevertheless were generally supportive and some were amazing mentors and role models that I will be grateful to for the rest of my life.

But these are all individual, personal experiences and do not constitute an argument for insisting that all state schooling is as excellent any more than it is all 'crap'