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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He’s not wrong. [/quote]

But he's also from a system where only 31% of 16-year-olds would continue with formal academic education, as opposed to 100% of students here. So of course the general high school population seems skewed to him. Two-thirds of the students he's in class with here would have dropped out of academia by this age in Germany.[/quote]

While this is true, if you compare only the subset of kids who are college or university bound, the American system is showing a lot of problems right now, because kids are showing up to college here way more underprepared than they used to be.[/quote]

This is confirmed that current college students are lacking math skills, it’s the COVID effect from trapping our kids at home for so long. Thank you teachers and democrats for the disservice you’ve done to a generation of kids[/quote]

There is a factual basis supporting your conclusions:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annaesakismith/2025/12/11/uc-san-diego-finds-one-in-eight-freshmen-lack-high-school-math-skills/[/quote]

Or, thank you parents for allowing your tweens and teens to have unfettered access to a device that reduces your attention span and reduces quality of sleep, which reduces your brain’s ability to retain information! Keep blaming Covid, but that was 1 and 1/3 school year and we have had 4 in school years since then—it’s not Covid, it’s TikTok etc that’s pulling them down. [/quote]

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