I was a D & F math student in high school. I couldn't do algebra to save my life. In college, I was a B & A student in Algebra. The difference? The teacher. In high school, the teacher called me lazy. In college, the teacher recognized how badly I wanted to understand and took the effort to get me there. There was this Ah-ha moment when it fell into place. I don't believe there is any place in modern education for the kind of student I was, getting the actual "teaching" they need. When structure takes over, there will eventually be a situation where the "State" determines which students go on to higher education. Not only that, but they will be told which degree programs are open to them.
