The United States currently has a system which was instituted almost two hundred years ago as a result of the Industrial Revolution. Education incorporated the efficiency of a manufacturing model into a way to educate the general populace. While the intentions were well-meaning, they were not based on an understanding of child development or even on how children learn. Through the years, different approaches have been used to make education more efficient. A significant approach was to use a more scientific method, termed the behaviorist approach, to maximize curricular instruction through lesson plans and objectives. However, the "elephant in the room" is that our educational system of grouping children by age for one-size-fits-all instruction is ultimately a flawed system. Respected authors and educators have called to "throw out the whole system" and pursue radical change. With the possibilities of inventing a new system, the "Differentiated Instruction" model is examined. This article seeks to demonstrate how differentiated instruction is simply a "Band Aid" approach for an educational system that is detrimental to the development and well being of diverse and unique children. This article proposes that a new and different system needs to be created to meet the needs of ALL children.