Unk: I'm getting science classes here that include everything from nutrition over human organs to studying microorganisms in ponds and disecting a pigs heart (pigs have a cardiovascular systems that is very similar to a humans( and a fish, to why flies see more pictures per second than humans, and how they see the environment.
And after getting straight one-hundreds in test and A+es in my report cards in pre algebra, the highest math class taught at my middle school, I barely managed a passing grade (probably C- in american grades, 4 in swiss) on the entrance test to the state school.
As to where I was taught in America, it was in Connecticut, which is considered one of the best states in America schooling-wise (or at least was at the time) in one of the best public schools in the state (that was VERY important to my parents when they choose where they wanted to live).
I'm not saying american schooling is bad, look at all the technology and scientific discoveries made in America. But there are systems that are better, and lets remember the reason we can communicate (the internet) was invented by the swiss, at CERN, a research center in Geneva.

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