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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]After a few years of reading DCUM and reading blogs written by American moms with school aged children, I can say unequivocally that the Canadian school system is superior. You send your child to whatever public school you are zoned for, you don't have to wait in line to apply, you don't have to deal with testing your 3 year old or whatever people have to do to get in to elementary schools, and we all end up smart  the system works.[/quote]

[/quote]Middle class families receiving financial aid are paying a substantial portion of the tuition of which I am a paying recipient.  Most coffers in private school cannot provide full pay because there are so many applicants seeking financial aid.

[b]I agree that one of the benefits of US culture is recognizing the value of racially and economically diverse colleges, and most schools have made it their goal to ensure this happens.[/b]  However, it comes at the cost of past and ongoing litigation (affirmative action) at many of these institutes to achieve exactly what you extoll, some unsuccessfully.  The dynamic and available opportunities that push kids to excel in education is a good one but comes replete with the stressors of maintaining high GPAs and standardized college entrance test scores.  Rural America may not reflect these ideas but many step outside of rural America and will have to compete.

I am not knocking our system.  I would live nowhere else but America.  But I would be remiss if I didn't reflect further on your heartfelt comments.  America is not an academic utopia, no matter what part of this country you are in.  It offers much and some of the best academia in the world.  The diligent seek out what works best and meets personal expectations.  It's separating the wheat from the chaff.  And that's anywhere you live whether it's east, west, middle America or wherever.[/quote]

Do you think this is different than Canada? Canadian culture is even more multicultural than US culture. Do you think that all SES and races are well represented in colleges in the US? i am not knocking that the US might value diversity, I just don't think that is a US value.[/quote]

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