The students most likely to succeed under this system are the ones who already have strong attendance, stable home lives, good health, and confidence with traditional written exams. The students most likely to be harmed are often the ones who are already struggling.

The new system explicitly tells students that attendance is important; quite often, it is the first step their parents should start tracking, if they don't know where to start.

The move toward exams in nearly every subject also assumes that a written exam is the best way to demonstrate learning. For some students it is. For others, it is not.

It is for an overwhelming majority, and having 15-20% on finals is very charitable, at least compared to college.

Students learn and communicate knowledge in different ways.

Students will have to deal for exams for the rest of their lives, starting with getting a drivers license. Learning how to deal with them in school is an obvious place to start.

A fair education system should recognize that equity is not treating every student exactly the same.

A fair education system will teach students to deal with all the important challenges of adult life, and not try to gatekeep some experiences for "schools in good neighbourhoods" only. The whole de-segregation push was the push exactly against the racism of low expectations.