> This comes at the price of not optimally supporting students who would do much better in a different kind of system. It depends on the culture of the place t

> This comes at the price of not optimally supporting students who would do much better in a different kind of system. It depends on the culture of the place the school system is applied in. This kind of blanket utilitarianism by way of school is a sad state for society as a whole. In a country like Canada we have a sordid past, very recently, when implementing the residential school system [0]. That's the more extreme case but I'd argue that elements of that exist in every school system when applied in a one-size-fits-all fashion and when that system has a monopoly on education. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_...