I dare you to compare High School kids from America and Japan Compare American kids and European kids Compare American kids and Chinese city kids in terms of sciences studied. You Americans still didn't grasp 9/11 and what happened .....so what hope is there WHAT BLOODY HOPE IS THERE
in the 50s and 60s kids were told study hard math and other hard things because Russians and others are teaching their kids hard and if you don't study hard Russia will win. Well guess what no one tells kids now to study hard NOW KIDS HEAR. PICK WHAT YOU LIKE SONNY YOU LIKE ART GO FOR IT YOU LIKE MUSIC GO FOR IT YOU LIKE DRAMA GO FOR IT
Of course you are wrong... you only speak about those Americans who watch Oprah, play lotto and let the school system raise their kids. Turn off CNN-i. That is not all of America. It sure as hell isn't me. And stop making the mistake of lumping together political decisions with what the taxpayers want.
I will take any high school student nationality over you. Apparently, "education was all lost on you... Europe, chronic high unemploment and uncompetitive. Japan, as they say "the nail that sticks up wil be pounded down." - bunch of conformists. US kids beat them 6 ways to Sunday on entrepreneurial and inventive skills. China, city maybe. But what about the 800 million chinese stuck in rural poverty? And a government that still controls things like what websites you can view or how many kids you should have
China city ? what more do you need, keeping in mind their population size Japan? HOW IS IT I DRIVE A HONDA NOT FUKING Chrysler Europe, Is still better off than US. At least their FED didn't lose 9 trillion dollars YOU ARE A PRIME EXAMPLE WHY AMERICA WILL DECLINE AS POWER Pseudo-thinker Half wit is what you would understand
Public Education? yes and no! No for the education in the classes but Yes for the education on the streets and households. US needs to change its culture of hiding the faults and even encouraging them and deny the mistakes and issues that have taken a near monstrous shape. Course books remain the same but it is the culture of the people that matters. For how long do we remember the topics crammed and hard learned in the course books. After one semester only 20% tops remains in the memory. So it is not course books but ethics and culture are more important and US was good in these before and is sliding rapidly now and is paying the price of not attending to the real issues.
destruction of family values you can't spank kids now so they smoke pot and have sex and CALL 911 on you that is why America will go the way of the dodo