year. guitar player brian whited from middle class seymour, tennessee, are there classes you re not able to take because they re not offered in the school that you d like to take? i guess any a.p. classes at all. reporter: sophomore shawn patell from upper middle class montgomery, new jersey. the son of indian immigrants, shawn is already taking two a.p. classes, which leaves him little time for his favorite hobby, dancing. i m taking spanish iv, a.p. u.s. history one, a.p. statistics, english honors, chemistry honors. reporter: soledad o brien, cnn. meet maria, brian, and shawn in don t fail me, ed nation america the documentary examines the crisis in our public education system and