How many members of this committee are educators who actually work in the classroom? How many of the students on this committee are struggling in school? School boards and administrators have looked for ways to improve educational data, not actually improve education. We have taken an institution and decided that all students must be learning at the same pace, and are at the same maturity level. A student in the early elementary grades who struggles in reading or math will be pulled out of classes they enjoy for additional instruction in subjects they struggle with, all this does is turn them off of learning/school. Children are intelligent they pick up quickly that schools have labeled them dumb. Society has decided that the only way to be successful in this country is to go to college. You will hear the term college and workplace ready, but what is usually pushed is only the college aspect. There are plenty of intelligent, successful people in this world who did not graduate college.