The problem is that everybody keeps telling the kids that they need this piece of paper to be a success. Nobody actually cares about what the kids have learnt,

The problem is that everybody keeps telling the kids that they need this piece of paper to be a success. Nobody actually cares about what the kids have learnt, the piece of paper is the important bit. No wonder that kids are starting to call the bluff of the system and burying themselves in youtube and computer games. By all the measures of the people around them, they are either going to be failures or spend the rest of their lives working for the man, so they may as well cut to the chase and fail without even trying. Then you get the sad statistics of the kids who decide to end it all once they realise that the myth of success is impossible and have nothing else to fall back on.