Re:Hormonal (Score 2, Interesting)

They are. People really need to realize that comparing Japans standardized test scores to ours is like comparing apples and oranges. In America a lot of people who would have already dropped out in Japan are still in school, horsing around and ruining it for the kids who want to learn. It's a pretty big dilemma: do we let anyone who doesn't like school drop out and in turn have a society full of idiots (oh wait, nm) -OR- do we force the guys who don't care about school to stay in and in turn lower the quality of education that every who does care gets.