The entire system of institutionalizing your children to teach them to be functional is the root cause, never let whatever self-esteemers or new mathers or whatever goofy next educational horizon the principal learned in their post-doc educational studies class override the laborious, at times excruciating, but ultimately rewarding goal of tactical, immediate, and focused remediation of your children's emotional vulnerabilities.

Tangentially, this is what the book Frankenstein was all about, the effect of education on different individuals, the most memorable of the monster being educated only formally, presumably by being given 'you showed up ribbons', with no family support structure, and growing up... with a rotten brain.