Now that I’m in academia, my eyes have been opened.

Was that a real question? Our education system is a joke is what's happening. I just read an article about 2 Jewish students being expelled from school for complaining about a Palestinian flag hanging in the gymnasium.

I spent a semester on exchange in a US university and noticed the material was a fair bit easier than in Canada.

The fact that a lot of US schools seem to be sports franchises with a sideline in education might have something to do with that.

The American education system isn't focused on making strong leaders, independent thinkers or problem solvers . It is structured to create sheep, working class mindless drones, with little ambition and only interested in their own little world. It has gotten a little better in the past 20 yrs in changing that narrative but for the most part it's the same old , same old as it has been for the past 200 yrs. Molding our youth to become slaves to the system. It has done a very effective job in accomplishing just that. The biggest indicator of that is apparent by just stepping back and looking at the state the country and the government are in and by looking at the political climate.

We have allowed this country to deteriorate into an oligarchy. The voters don't run this country , big business and the rich do. The corruption, the repression of life changing ideas, environmental improvements, alternative energy, medical and health improvements, tax reforms, the list goes on and on. Ideas, inventions , policy changes that are squashed and swept under the rug all in the interest of profit. For the personal gain of a few.

Do you honestly believe any elected official has yours or the countries best interest at heart ?? Hell no , all they have is their own interest at heart. Just look at the game players Biden for one, his net worth is over $10,000,000 . He has been a public servant his entire life, he didn't make that money on a public service salary I can guarantee that. The Clinton's worth an estimated combined wealth of almost $400,000,000 !! Almost a half a billion dollars, not on a public service salary. I know your going to say private business dealings which is partially true, but much of that from shady under the table, behind closed doors deals which many of which would be illegal or conflict of interest at the least.

It's all our fault for letting it get so far out of hand for so long. I blame a lot of that for the education system turning out generations of slaves/ sheep trained to do what your told, don't ask questions, believe what we say, and don't make waves. That's my take on the American education system and it's effectiveness and it's affects.

America fell behind in the mid to late 80s never caught up and still cuts funding to schools in order to fund wars with no foreseeable benefit or outcome.

I've gone to school in Europe and California, and I think California schools are better. Why?

In other countries they focus on memorizing facts. In the USA they focus on thinking, problem solving, working in groups, cooperating and being in a multicultural environment.

When I moved to The USA I fell in love with education, not there. My high school had ski team, drama classes, musicals, and the teachers asked us what we thought. Not in Europe. There when I entered the class the teacher didn't say a word, only pointed to the board what pages to read and write the answers. I hated education in Europe. All the homework was done in class. There were no discussions or interesting debates in any of my classes in Europe. Also, the government did not allow higher education unless there was a need for a particular profession. In the USA you can become anything you want, then the war happened in the middle east and refugees came and they didn't have enough teachers so my mom who doesn't even have any college got a job as a teacher.

The USA is like no other country, we are multicultural, and we have the best thinkers in the world. I have more than a Masters degree now and I love what I do, and I make a lot of money. As much as a doctor in Europe.

This is what happens when government absolves itself from any responsibility and turns it all over to 'market forces'.

A social and business model found to be a complete failure and a generation + of industry; jobs; apprenticeships; manufacturing; home ownership possibilities lost.

America needs people to hold slave-wage jobs and they don't want unwanted foreigners filling those spaces. That's my guess.