Well, your schools may be failing, but at least they’re not lying about it like ours are. We dont teach the kids either, but they still get record marks and passes every year because we make the exams easier.
I was talking to a University Professor here in the UK a few months back and he stated unequivocally that the current British generation will be the first in 1500 years to know less than parents do. Putting on my devils advocate hat, I made one of the usual liberal answers, namely that the emphasis now is not on knowing facts (after all you can always look them up) but on knowing how to find out facts. His reply to that was “well, it isn’t working then”.
To loosely quote Reagan, it’s not that kids today don’t know anything, it’s just that most of what they know just isn’t so.
present day British school kids are absolute idiots — not their fault, but the school system is so dumbed down you just get chavs coming out of it.