The solution is to stop accepting individuals who aren't up to the standards.

It's worth a shot bringing them up to standards. But we don't do that. We pretend they are up to standard and give them leeway all the way though to graduation.

I'd be A-OK giving underprivileged people a chance. But only if we started accepting that there's a line where we have to accept that these people are not what we thought they'd be. Sadly we can't do that. We pretend that it's an external force holding them down and not their own ineptitude.