Well, my Chinese sucks too... I'm always first in class in
Mandarin... bottoms-up!!

Thing is, if you're not good in English, nor in your 2nd language,
nor in any subject for that matter, then what the hell are you
doing wasting taxpayers' money in school?!
The youths in poorer countries have to walk a long distance just to
get to school and then work to support themselves when they are not
attending school!
Ok, even if we don't talk about extreme poverty, look at our
neighbouring Asians - the PRC's, Koreans, Japanese, Taiwanese...
all of them put a high premium on education and esp on learning
English.