[xyzone]

I know Americans are deluded about this, but your public school system in general is babysitting, plain and simple. There are exceptions in districts here and there as there always are exceptions, but it's not the rule.

Ask a Japanese exchange student who spends time in the US what they think about the schooling. I don't mean to be crass, but I knew one Japanese girl who evidently only came to the US to skank out and party. Let's keep it real, that's what happened. Sorry, US schools are a joke, but it's no accident. That's how the status quo likes it to create ignorant drones and helpless slackers to make cannon fodder for their oil wars and shill grunt brigades -- oh, and shoppers.