Modern American Education System

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The modern American education system is failing because students are bored. This is only natural since the first years of education assume children are unintelligent and the later years assume they cannot make decisions for themselves. The early years make kids think school is a place to be bored and passive, and then when they need to push themselves in high school they struggle. Additionally, their ability to push themselves in the direction they want to is limited because they cannot take the classes they want. In order to improve the education system, primary school should be much more demanding, and nearly every class in high school needs to be an elective. The education system employed in United States primary schools is