In France, this is the end of school... And as usual, lots and lots of bad students will continue to fail every day of next year instead of being re-oriented. The french system forces almost every children to keep school 'til they are 18, even if they don't have the level or the potential, or the will.
The idea seems to be good: give access to culture to every one...But the results are catastrophic. Because when you have 9 or 10 kids in a class who don't want to work or learn their lessons , you have to keep every one at a low level, and so, every one is learning too slow. Most of these bad students can't work in the actual system, and it would be a good thing to create other structures, adapted to them.
But the french mentality tends to believe the illusion that every one is equal, wich is not true. So, teachers and students are in the same old and rusty boat, but the boat is sinking....