I've met adults like this. The system was designed for students to drop out and get a job they can handle. Now that all jobs require a highschool or even university degree, the schools just try to get rid of them.
It takes a lot of work to help students catch up, and faculty at schools don't want to spend their money doing this. Each student with known problems has a plan and dedicated workers to help them. However, I've seen schools try to pretend the money doesn't exist, or it's the parents fault, or anything else to explain where the money went. There's a lot of pressure to just move them on.
The grade system is at fault. If Timmy has a problem with reading, he needs help reading. If Jenny can't do math, then she needs help on that. The school lumps both together and demands everything work like it did 80 years ago.
When I was a kid they used "tracks" for middle school and high school so that kids were somewhat grouped together by intellect and performance. Special Ed kids only mixed with normal kids for PE. Now it seems they just toss all of the kids together - nigs, tards, ESL - they are all supposed to do "college prep" courses that are basically worthless.
The ability to catch back up isn't even considered. I have a foster kid who can catch up, but the system wants the money from his being stupid. If he catches up, it's from outside work.
I've met adults like this. The system was designed for students to drop out and get a job they can handle. Now that all jobs require a highschool or even university degree, the schools just try to get rid of them.
It takes a lot of work to help students catch up, and faculty at schools don't want to spend their money doing this. Each student with known problems has a plan and dedicated workers to help them. However, I've seen schools try to pretend the money doesn't exist, or it's the parents fault, or anything else to explain where the money went. There's a lot of pressure to just move them on.
The grade system is at fault. If Timmy has a problem with reading, he needs help reading. If Jenny can't do math, then she needs help on that. The school lumps both together and demands everything work like it did 80 years ago.
When I was a kid they used "tracks" for middle school and high school so that kids were somewhat grouped together by intellect and performance. Special Ed kids only mixed with normal kids for PE. Now it seems they just toss all of the kids together - nigs, tards, ESL - they are all supposed to do "college prep" courses that are basically worthless.
The ability to catch back up isn't even considered. I have a foster kid who can catch up, but the system wants the money from his being stupid. If he catches up, it's from outside work.