My Finnish friends showed me their high school math books, which were subjects that I took during my first two years of undergraduate math. One of my friends graduated US high school, and re-enrolled in Finnish high school because her coursework was so retarded.

It wasn’t always this way. For most of the twentieth century, American schools were advanced when compared to foreign schools.

It’s mostly due to broad lowered standards and expectations, low standards for teaching, phony credentials. But the US DOE hasn’t helped either. It would be best to move its entitlements to another agency, and abolish the remainder. It’s overseen the biggest academic decline over the past 50 years. Outside of the entitlements, even its supporters couldn’t name a single good policy.