The schooling aspects of this are largely just a fact of life when you attempt to centralize and standardize education at this kind of scale. > Well it's not l

The schooling aspects of this are largely just a fact of life when you attempt to centralize and standardize education at this kind of scale. > Well it's not like that in {{small, rich, socialist European country du jour}} Again, scale. Only Japan and China have really had to deal with this, and their children are likely as stressed and free of free time as those in the US. Large scale means strict standards with zero room for deviation.