I think she has come to the same conclusions many teenagers have come to before her. Although perhaps she frames them a little more elegantly. Most teenagers ju

I think she has come to the same conclusions many teenagers have come to before her. Although perhaps she frames them a little more elegantly. Most teenagers just have the instinctive realization that, "school sucks." Grading is a system that can be gamed. However, it's not a system that doesn't encourage you to learn anything. I'd say you are rather clever if you can get good grades but not very smart if you didn't learn anything along the way. In one of her criticism she claims "I excelled at every subject just for the purpose of excelling, not learning. And quite frankly, now I'm scared." She should be scared. Scared that she made a mistake to not learn anything. But of course I don't believe that to be true. She did learn something even if she is spiteful of the methods by which she came across the knowledge. I also do not believe that the system is perfect either and it is good that she recognizes this. However I think she, like the vast majority of people charged with writing a speech for an audience, got hold of a single idea and stretched it beyond its logical limits. Is the system perfect? No. By any rote definition of perfection any system wrought of the mind of a human cannot be perfect. Could it be better? Certainly. Though I think you will have a tough time educating people by removing the goal of excellence.