They've been doing "stream" since I was in school and it made me a worse person. I was pigeonholed into the remedial classes with no way out. No pleading would do it. I was never given target grades to reach to get out. And that was just when I was trying to get into the average classes. At one point, I tried bypassing the and testing into Honors/AP. I was told I failed, but recently, I learned by accident that I passed those tests, but was lied to. The guidance counselor who leaked that to me was surprised I wasn't happy about that and refused to say it was wrong. By the end, they were just telling me that the better classes were full, so I told them I would drop out 3 months from graduation and try again the next year. They thought I was bluffing.

Remedial classes do not focus on fixing anything. They're just dumping grounds for undesirable students. The students are en mass, are unmotivated and bully anyone down that think doesn't belong. I literately heard "What do you expect? We're remedial students" from one of my classmates one time. The teacher just dropped her head.

You want to fix things? Start holding students back. Throw out the participation awards the boomers forced on everyone. Don't just pipeline everyone into community colleges. Or make an actual High School track available in community college. My state supposedly has one, but they make it hard as hell to get any info on it.