Presidential Debate

[kandrathe]

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If the educational system in the United States is really as bad as you say (I heard some pretty scary stories about it, a multiple choice history test which asked about the century WWII took place in, iirc for students aged 15 or 16, hard to believe this could be true) it's really sad that we here in Europe, with our supposedly superior educational system still have such a large amount of ignorance and stupidity.
Sorry, I am in a dark mood today.

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You tend to only hear about the outrageous stuff. After the Kennedy "We will go to the moon", hype and cold war competitiveness waned, there was a period where the answer to educational equality was a lowest common denominator. If too many people were failing a subject, the answer was to make the tests easier. I think that malaise was undone about a decade ago, and now our grade schoolers bring home at least an hours worth of homework each evening. But, not everywhere.