WellinormedYid,
I notice you place no responsibility with the school. Inthe yeshiva high school that I attended, the students with the weakest gemorra skills were assigned to “garbage’ ( that was how these shiurim were known as ) and assigned rebbes with the poorest teaching skills. Small wonder that these kids never developed the needed skills, got turned off and the majority went off the derech by the time we graduated. I was one of the lucky few who managed to hang on and return. To the Moderator, the school was the old BTA in Brooklyn.