Isn't this why every foreign film is remade by hollywood? It doesn't matter if it doesn't make sense based in LA with english speaking actors, they do it anyway.

Suppose I decided to make pants for children from the age of 4 to 18 and I ensured that there would only be one size and shape of pants for an age group; and these pants were manufactured by people who would cut back on the quality of the pants in order to use the money saved to silkscreen political messages on the pants. How well would these pants fit the needs of most of these children?

hmmm....just hmm......(i'm tryna hide the fact that i have no idea what your talking about)

The school system (essentially) works in a one-size fits all fashion where the only thing they consider about a student is their age; and quite often teachers would rather spend their time trying to shape the political opinions of their students than to teach them the fundamentals of their subject.

the one size fits all is kinda true here but  many schools have a "set" system which groups kids of the same age by ability, can't  relate to the political shamo either  which is proly why I didn't understand.

 Unless you take higher courses. In mddle school I was "gifted" so I took the higher, better classes. Same in high school with Honors and AP courses. The teachers actually care about you, and generally, they are the best and brightest of the faculty as well. So as long as the kid works hard, and can handle the harder courses, then they will be fine.

That's complete BS.  They have a ton of remedial programs and gifted and talented programs as soon as you get into school all the way up until students graduate. 

You are also completely ignoring the fact that they have a lot of programs to help children BEFORE they even get into school which are FREE.  The ECI Debt program and other sister programs help children from the ages of birth to three who are having trouble with their speech or that have any other learning disabilities.  They even have FREE government programs for children who are much more severe learning disabilities, such as autisim, Asperger's, Down Syndrome, etc.

Now if you are talking about standardized testing, that is a more accurate statement.  Byt what you said completely disregards the facts.

Wow, thats a high number. Higher than you would hope for!

Just because I exaggerated, does not mean that the problem does not exist.

The education system is built around the assumption that every student should (or should want to) go on to university and get a degree. They focus their resources towards preparing you for this eventual university education and completely ignore the fact that 2/3 of students will never get a university degree, and in the process around 1/3 of students become frustrated and leave school BECAUSE THEIR NEEDS ARE NOT BEING MET!

You can talk all you want about the school being a little flexible, and offering programs to help people meet their narrow definitions of success or failure, but it is still far from inclusive.

I would seriously have to question this number, I personally know a lot of people and out of say 250 or more there is only one person of those I know can't read. He is my wifes grandpa (who is 89 years old), he had to leave school at a very very young age to help support his family working on a farm after his father died.

Think about it, how many people do you know who can't read? Sure a few of the people I know can barely put 2 sentences together but they CAN. Maybe it is more prevailing in other parts of the country but around here it isn't really an issue. Around here being ( Kentucky ).