Perhaps that's part of the awakening ... Leading people to realize the US is not exceptional (except in education, because since grades must be like golf scores, we're the champs) and it will take a lot of hard work to reclaim that.
Actually, as a side-bar thought: If our education system sucks that bad, then how do we know that the complete failures aren't really the geniuses, and the geniuses aren't the utter failures?
Perhaps that's part of the awakening ... Leading people to realize the US is not exceptional (except in education, because since grades must be like golf scores, we're the champs) and it will take a lot of hard work to reclaim that.
Actually, as a side-bar thought: If our education system sucks that bad, then how do we know that the complete failures aren't really the geniuses, and the geniuses aren't the utter failures?