Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.218.70.24-20150317164438/@comment-4010415-20150412191357

Either way, the way that the public education system works here causes a lot of stress to students and puts more emphasis on memorizing enough to pass standardized tests, rather than actually learning. Students, for the most part, don't learn a whole lot about how to think, and instead just temporarily memorize things long enough to pass.

So many of my classmates had trouble with grammar, figuring out how to pronounce words they'd never seen before, and doing math without a calculator in 12th grade.