Education in America

I personally feel that American children don't appreciate the education they are privileged to. In America, kids are forced to go to school, and (at public schools) they don't have to pay for their educations. Parents get in trouble if kids don't attend. They get reported for truancy.

In other countries, children aren't as privileged. My knowledge may be limited, but from what i've been told, American children are some of the luckiest students in the world. Their educations (through high school graduation) is free, and there are many grants and scholarships available for students to enter university. (Not saying that other countries don't offer those same amenities.)

In many impoverished countries, children don't get much more than (what is equivalent to) a 3rd or 4th grade education. Some children don't get to go to school ever. The only thing that helps those children is church missions and those foundations that are always advertising for money to sponsor a child in those late-night infomercials. (Not that they don't do good work, of course.)

In countries like Japan, children have testing to enter high school. If they don't score in a certain percentile, they don't get to continue their educations and have to enter the workforce, where the jobs aren't as good and the pay isn't as nice.

In other countries, such as Australia, high school students have to pay for their educations. There is grants and such offered to them, for lower-income families, but the point is, students still have to pay to continue their educations and graduate high school.

It's just ridiculous to me that American children take for granted what other children work so hard for. There's children that fluff off in school and go to college and blow their parents' money partying. Its a sad thing that they don't understand what they're throwing away.