One size fits all? Just like the commie uniforms? ALL THE SAME?
No child left behind, even if the fastest are cursed to move at a snail's pace.
This has the added 'benefit' of marking the brightest, who soon get bored stiff and start getting into trouble, and often give up on school altogether as "stupid", only now do so with fewer skills than ever...
The attack is on the gifted, first, then the smart children who would have done far better had they been allowed to, or even helped along with that a a goal.