Maybe New England schools are better off or something (or at least Massachusetts and New Hampshire ones?). Not that there still aren't massive problems with the state of public ed, but my school experience was largely not to bad besides bullying issues. Some teachers were better than others, but none stick out to me as horrible and I have no memories of experiencing teacher-based ableism, which you think I would right? Maybe I just don't remember it or didn't process certain teacher behaviors as that though.

Worst thing I experienced besides bullying was when my mom put me in a Montessori charter school and they didn't have a special ed program and had to try to build it from scratch around just me. That went poorly, besides Montessori did NOT work for me in the slightest, I just goofed off all day lmao. I was back in regular public school before the end of that year.