"Poverty proof the school". This reminds me of Bushe's famous "No Child Left Behind" line, which is perfect, because the statement is a great summarization of our cultures attitude towards hardship in general. How many times have we heard "there must be something we can do!". We need more people ringing back "Sorry buddy, that's not the way the world works. This isn't a game of rainbows and unicorns; this is reality. There will always be people who live in tragedy and pain, and the most you can do is mitigate it.". My view can be best summarized by the economist Thomas Sowell "The primary lesson of economics is there are no solutions, only tradeoffs." I wish that was taught in school. I swear we'd have a completely different world.