Way back when, more years ago than I care to count, when I spent a year in France as an exchange student, I was embarrassed by how bad I was in math as compared to the French high school students. I always got A’s in math and science, and in France, I couldn’t even understand what they were studying. I tried, but I just did not have the educational background. I later learned in college the same math that the French were doing in high school. I was so jealous of the French kids that they were so far ahead of me academically, at the same year of school. Conversely, French high school kids who came to the US for exchanges complained that school was not at all challenging.
How sad to see that education in France has fallen so far.