Comes down to the individual, I can give you the tools to become successful, it doesn't mean that you'll necessarily succeed.
Tools of Success...name them...oh the 3 R's. What else? Have you read the stats of illiterate children in American Schools?

You must have had some horrible teacher in school breh. My history professor in college had us reading primary sources, from there we were able to come up with our own analysis what really happened, sohh yes we did question the book, because given context clues we're be able to arrive our very on conclusion, history can be very subjective imo....
Where is that in what I explain in the 3 main schooling institutions? Elementary, Middle and High School.
Thus why in my European history class, we had a 30 minute debate between two black males, on whether or not Frederick the III of Germany(Prussia) was Enlightened or not(sh*t was piff)
Yet they weren't taught their history.
sohh what is, life is a simulation breh
fair enough if you're talking about how public schools put pressure on teachers to pass Standardized Test, which have no impact on a students' grade.....
baby steps breh
Crawl >>>>>> Walk >>>>> Run
You obviously don't know that the SOL testing has been going on over 15 years now...how much baby steps are there?


Tell that to the Scientist / Researchers and Engineers who do a higher advanced form of math(calculus) everyday
I mean it's cool if you like flying on planes not engineered by mathematics or seeking help from doctors who lack the ability to critically think on a moments notice. Oh bu bu bu but not everyone is going to be a doctor or engineer, sohh are we going stop people trying anyway. Yes, people should be remain in a state ignorance and remain dumb and never question the people in charge. How dare we educate people to think like scientist or doctors.
Condescending tones like yours proves you truly don't have a clue on education. None of what you said captures anything in the same space as the your primary school years. You don't sit in a class room all day to learn how to fly planes. Teaching about driving and driving yourself is two different things. The experience plus knowledge is better than just the knowledge itself.
I swear society could be on a brink of a new enlightenment, not seen since the 17-18th century(noticed I just referenced history) but all you anti-academic, smart-dumb, pseudo-intellectual, homo sapiens (the majority) keep stopping progress.
You referenced European History as your enlightenment unless you are white....what does it mean to those who are non-white? There you go with your "I'm better than you" attitude. Stop talking to someone like a child and man up.
Imagine if science had a fraction of this country's support (25%), we could be doing big things.

@ NASA's Rover budget being as small as 2.5 billion yet still engineering it to perfectly land on Mars, complete various task. Yet it's ok to blow through a few billion monthly in the Middle East
Imagine science helping people instead of flying up to a planet that people won't be able to go to for another 500 years? The earth has everything we need to sustain itself. Those who have been greedy such as the Elite has wage war with science on their side. They used science for WMD's, GMO's, deadly vaccines and pharmaceutical drugs. Nearly more half the children are becoming autistic and are on psycho-tropic drugs. So why would school even matter than?
Time to find out what real prioritizes are instead of ranting about what you think you know.
/End rant