silent_death_is_loud
I went anyway, I just didn't want to . Obviously, your priorities are different from mine. =P
The British and American education systems are majorly f*cked up. The Americans moreso. America middles students (In one examination, 30% of Mississipi (sp?) where shown to be illiterate. So they made another test. Now it's 3%), whereas we in Britain still believe it's 1850 and school is for good Christian boys only. Girls, Jews, Blacks, Gays, etc obviously cannot succeed in school! The prejudice is unheard of. They
force myself and a fellow Jew into
chapel every morning so we can listen to their hymns and hear about how great Jesus is, before I get shouted at when I don't bow my head during prayer...
Don't get me started on upper- and middle-class education in British boarding schools...
I don't know about Canada. Is it that bad?