Sometimes that argumentative stuff comes from what people with learning disabilities endure. I have dyslexia and it was very severe. I fell behind very quickly in school as a child and one principal wrote to my Mother that I should be placed in the disabled class. My Mother fought it. But the stigma gets applied to you early and the taunts from classmates. Even in High School when I had worked my way into honor roll on a regular basis an advisor told me to avoid university and go for job training. Well a history degree later and a Master's in Information Science and that still rankles me. People don't get over that easily. I still need a calculator to do any sort of math at all. I still catch myself writing things backwards and have to stop and focus and try again.
I've never talked to my sister in detail about her education, but I don't get the impression that she had a good time. I think she was just put into the bottom group and left to rot, basically... She certainly left school as soon as she was able. When you talk to her, though, she's clearly intelligent and perceptive in many ways. She's way better with her finances than me, for example, and I have two maths A-Levels. I think we're better these days at catching kids with these problems and giving them the help that they need, but sadly it's too late for people like my sister. 
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