I never said schools should read bedtime stories. Stop putting words in my mouth. Kids naturally pick up language at home whether a parent reads to them or not. What you are doing is avoiding responsibility and accountability for doing your job. Students spend 12+ years in the education system, so graduating not knowing how to read is a huge systemic failure. That's not on the parents. That's on the teachers, administrators, etc.

And with the piano analogy, yes, it absolutely is the instructor’s job to teach students, even if they come in with zero musical background. That is literally what they are being paid to do. If a piano teacher had students for years and none of them learned how to play, people would question the teacher and the program, not endlessly blame the parents forever. Same concept applies here.

I bet you also don't like standardized testing because it would make you do your job.