American education systems have been failing kids for a long time. Its the reason why we aren't even close to #1 anymore. Once they changed the curriculum to sitting behind a desk all day learning literature instead of getting your hands dirty and learning practical hands on mechanical and cooking skills. Its turned our kids into entitled brats thinking they are too good for that and someone else should be doing it. Then waste another 4-8 years in college working for them while saddling up monster debt while they could be gaining valuable experience and making money instead of debt. That's the real scam.
Remember, somehow in 1820 we had 25 year old architects building the most extravagant buildings youve never seen built again, all over the world. In fact there supposedly so many they had to have contest to pick who would build them. What happened? Or was that also BS too and we are being majorly lied to? How do we go from those buildings to the current buildings if our "education" is getting better?