What are the disadvantages of American education?

For a long time, Chinese parents in the United States have introduced the advantages of American elementary schools: no rote memorization, no heavy burdens, and teachers encourage creative homework. These praises are mainly directed at the problems of China's domestic education (too much burden on students, too fierce competition), so they ignore the important problems of American education itself, and the level of American primary education is too shallow. Mao Jian, a writer who is a visiting scholar at Harvard University, said that his son had already mastered double-digit multiplication and division in China, but when he went to elementary school in the United States, he had to count from the beginning to 8 as he did in the first grade. He couldn't help but laugh and cry. However, at the same time, the child loved going to school very much. Because you can play all day long, and as a foreigner, you can quickly get involved with your classmates and keep attending American children’s birthday parties. Here we can see that American primary schools are indeed open-minded. Of course, this is probably because this is a good school in a famous school district. But imagine a child in China. If he still needs to learn the number 8, he might not even be able to pass it in kindergarten.

The shallowness of “mathematics education” in the United States has created a general lack of mental arithmetic ability among the American people. There is a popular joke on the Internet: There is a Chinese in the United States, shopping and paying the bill, looking up at the sky, and the accurate number was reported. Immediately, the Americans were frightened and looked up at the sky, and said in horror: Cloud computing? Class divisions can be clearly seen in primary and secondary education in the United States. Rich people can spend 10,000 to 20,000 per year in tuition to send their children to private high schools. The areas where good public schools are located belong to the so-called wealthy areas, and housing prices are very expensive. In the Boston area, a small two-bedroom apartment in a good school district costs more than $300,000. In an average school district, you can already buy a Single Family house. In poor high schools, children may take drugs. The madness of "school choice" in China is solved in a very "peaceful" way in the United States with "capital having the final say."