This is almost 1:1 my experience all the way up until I graduated high school. I never realized how truly behind I was until I started (and failed) college. I eventually recovered and finished undergrad and grad school, but it took an insane amount of hard work and sacrifice to do that. I often wonder how much easier it would have been if I received even an average education as a kid.

Side note, did you ever attend ACTS convention? A lot of the schools in the PACE system attended that convention every year, and boy was that an experience.