But now we know many trolls are young women, the searchlight shines on schools' failure to look after children's well-being.
And they do.Well-intentioned though the law may be, teachers complain it is so complicated that lawyers can make an easy career out of schools' failure to comply.
Instead we must firmly point the figure at the disastrous and unmandated dismantling of the NHS, inadequate and misdirected investment in schools, failure to build council housing, and failure to secure and enforce labour market regulation.
Warren Simmons, executive director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, said closing failing schools "places the entire responsibility for the schools' failure on the shoulders of the school" when broader problems with the district's policies could be responsible.
What is perhaps most astonishing is that by cherry-picking select stories of schools' failure, we completely obscure the data-driven fact that graduation rates for America's high school students stand at a record high, 82percentt.
Clearly in some Schools failure specifically in communication did hinder course progression, and in other Schools students did progress despite failing.
