Implement an system where some people fail their education

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Suggestion is basically what it says in the title. I have posted this in the sticky thread too. But for those who don't read that thread...

Education:

Currently if you provide a university and schools, ALL of your sims over time with become highly educated, which kills your specialised industry which only employs undereducated workers. The only way to prevent this ingame is to not zone enough offices so that higher educated workers take lower education jobs.

But this is unrealistic. IRL not everyone gets a PhD, some people fail school or are simply not as intelligent as others.

My suggestion is a % fail rate for all cims who attend school. So for example, 90% of cims are successful at high school, then those 90% go to uni. Of those, only 80% pass uni (some people fail, drop out). This would leave some people who are not at mass education level, and willing to take lower end jobs, as happens in real life.
 
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just don't build enough schools; which is also not realistic but if you need uneducated workers don't allow them to get educated in your city.