Our students will have the knowledge of their community and world in order to understand and respect self and others. They will be inquisitive, self-reliant and motivated, and know how to set goals. Sometimes in the push for accelerated academic achievement what you miss is the purpose. Or do you want to keep in mind an outcome greater than those discrete bits of knowledge. In most schools, having kids that are contributing members of society, having kids respect themselves and other people, having kids being accountable for their decisions, kind of happen through osmosis.
Most schools still operate on the factory model, to produce workers for an industrialized society.
If that's the implicit goal of your school, simply greater monetary affluence, then many children are going to fail. If your goal is to get this strong academic foundation and the only other goal beyond that is to, in fact, create financial wealth and prosperity for yourself, then you've really subverted a lot of kids. You've set them up to think something was going to happen that may not. The goal should be to raise responsible and decent people, the kind of folks we want to live next door. That's what we're about.