trolling or typo?
Here in the UK (I have no idea about other countries) once you reach the final years of secondary school, they offer an alternative form of education for those who aren't as academically gifted. They offer vocational studies, where you can begin learning a trade; plumbing, electronics, engineering, design and technology, childcare, woodwork, amongst others. Personally, I think they should offer this at an earlier age. Some children know the kind of route they want to take from a very young age, and I don't think it's right to force them down the academic route until the age of about 15.
Along with a lack of trade, things such as art (and everything within art, acting, music, design, etc.), public services, economics, textiles, environmental studies, politics, and other things I can't remember right now, are severely under-represented within the education system. These are the sorts of things that society relies on, the pillars of society for centuries and they are esentially ignored; I have no idea whether it's because the government are completely retarded or because they have an ulterior motive.
Schools are simply geared towards English, maths and science, which simply is not broad enough for a number of students. In my school, it was the same 10-20% of students who were in the top classes for all of these subjects (and I was amongst them, so I'm not biased) whilst the other students were essentially abandoned and left to achieve poor grades; to add even more insult the school actually BOASTED about this statistic within a local paper, it's utterly shameful.
People are vastly different; at the moment if you aren't academically gifted, then you're automatically dismissed and sent into a downward spiral of failure and lack of direction, it causes far more problems than it's worth. There should be schools geared to cater towards a variety of talents, rather than just a few. Even if there are separate schools for different kinds of students, so be it; rather than just bunch everyone into the same school where if you fail you're destined to fail forever.
I strongly believe it's not the students failing here, it's the education system that is failing them.