Well, #49, that's too bad. Humans are intrinsically fairly bright and in supporting environments they can generally achieve strongly. In your case, you may have been incapable, or the environment was poorly supportive, or your teachers were not good, etc. But in all those cases, the idea of letting achievers ACHIEVE has not been falsified. We can change our educational systems to stop classifying and limiting so much, and become more enabling and unleashing. Stopping the monopoly of the public schools in America is a good way to move towards such an organization.
The entire idea of challenging students to thrive (and FAIL, if necessary!), left the public schools in America about a generation ago, if not longer ... which has all been well enough documented by Charlotte Iserbyt and John Gatto.
Let's see if more students can accept higher reasoning by trial and error, not by resolutions crafted by a professional class with a large conflict of interest.