Different levels of US public schools date from different periods, and have different purposes. Grade school, grades 1-8: learn to read well enough to read the

Different levels of US public schools date from different periods, and have different purposes. Grade school, grades 1-8: learn to read well enough to read the Bible, do simple sums so as to be able to do simple mechanical things on farms, and keep from getting ripped off by city-slicker store owners. Kindergarten is a much later add on. It's supposed to prepare children for grade school, I guess. High school: prepare the bulk of the people to do factory work. Why else would you have rigid "shift work" style classes? Showing up on time is also heavily emphasized, so that graduates never question punching a time card. The US higher education system pre-dates grade school and high school. Harvard pre-dates the US Government. Borrowed from the English, with German-style reasearch institutes (technical universities) tacked on top. As far as history being all lies: I agree. But very narrow-minded lies. I believe that public schools as organized in the US educate to what standards the loudest complainers allow them to. History (or "Social Studies" as it is called) ends up being some pious lies told to students to paper over the tragic mistakes and abuses of the past. Would you like to be reminded that within historical times, your ancestors committed a continent-scale genocide?