Pressure on the kids to graduate ? Many schools have less than 50% of their population graduate - where's the pressure ?
They push them, believe me. They might not actually graduate, but they still stick it out, and they are encouraged to stick it out. The result is that you've got a lot of kids who aren't going to graduate, and don't give a damn, and yet, there they are, they are gobbling up the resources and creating a learning environment that is bad for those who do want to learn.