Historically, schools in the US have borrowed the European system of school organization, a system that separates students into grades by chronological age. In general, children begin formal schooling at the age of six in what is referred to as the first

The reading passage describes a current model of school organization of the United states of America. The lecturer avers that this system has several grave problems and the main one is that it pays no attention to student's differences.

Firstly, the passage asserts that when a person reaches age of six, he or she have to go to a primary school. It is believed that a kindergarten prepares future students to school, however, the professor claims that each student has one's own specific features and, for instance, one person can start educational process at earlier age than others. Consequently, although all students have approximately the same age when they begin education, their readiness for studying is not equal.

Furthermore, the distinction among students may have distinct nature: metal, physical and social. What is more, even if we assume that all students were initially equal to each other, they nevertheless would be divided in the future by their development as well. And the distinction between boys and girls at school is a good example.

Moreover, the speaker states that each student has specific learning characteristics as well. In fact, we have a problem that when one student who is able to absorb information easily and quicker has learnt a studied material, the second student who cannot learn new data swiftly requires repeating the material. As a result, we face a problem if we repeat the material, the first student may lose interest to subject; and if we do not do it, the second student will not absorb the theme.