What kind of Education should we give our students?

I ask the question in this post: What kind of education should we give our students?  The answer, according to the United States supreme court is a basic minimum.  In their words, "we should be giving the students a chevy education, NOT a cadillac education."  And here we have it, this, I think, is the very root of our problem as a society.  The very root of our education problem.

I have heard time and time again that we are at an educational disadvantage compared to other countries.  Many different views on how we are that way.  We don't have a 6 day school week, we don't have longer school days, we don't have year-round education, etc.  But never once has this been brought up as a reason that we are educationally disadvantaged in regards to the rest of the world.

Let's say that we have a 6 day school week, 12 hour school days and year-round school.  What good is any of that going to do if we only decide to give a "Chevy education?"

In Board of Education v. Rowley, Rowley was a girl who was deaf and could lip-read 60% of things that people said.  She was getting the services of a tutor that was written in her individual education plan (IEP).  Her parents wanted the school district to go one step further and give their daughter an interpreter for school.  The school denied their request, and the parents subsequently filed a litigation (sued) the school district saying that Rowley was not being provided a free appropriate public education (FAPE).  The lower courts sided with the parents and said that the school must provide the best education for the student.  The supreme court got the case and they sided with the school district saying that school districts only have to provide a minimum level.  And that adding an interpreter to her IEP would be costly to the school district, so they were only told to provide a minimum education level.

This, I feel, is completely wrong.  Rowley understood 60% of what was being said.  Imagine that she is in a biochemistry class and she doesn't understand 40% of what was being said.  I feel that it is morally wrong to just go to a certain level of interventions and then say, "Well, we've done everything that we could," when we know of a bunch of other things that can help the student.

We need to do what is best for the students, and deciding that we only need to provide a Chevy education is just wrong because we are not trying our best to make students' lives the best they can be.  I know now that I am going to get into a lot of trouble in the future, because I am going to do what is best for the students who are under my caseload.  I refuse to accept 7 guys who don't know a thing about education deciding that education for students should only be a minimum.  I will do what is best for my students, no matter the consequences (which might involve getting fired because I put a service on their IEP that the school doesn't think should be on there because it costs extra).