1-5% of kids should be expelled every year.

Starting in jr high the bottom 1% should be expelled from the school system every year. They can be given work internships for labor jobs you learn by doing. And given a chance to reattend when they are ready. This should increase to 5% or more in high-school every year.

Degrees need to mean something again.

Making high-school degree mean something will also have a downstream effect on making college degrees mean something again.

now of course this system isn’t dropped into a vacuum, once people realize the stakes, the ”lazy but smart” people will be forced into improvements.