I believe this is the average experience of most in Europe, I am Italian and I find the US (lower) education system worse than the Italian one too, and we score

I believe this is the average experience of most in Europe, I am Italian and I find the US (lower) education system worse than the Italian one too, and we score _terribly_ in all international rankings. I believe it's probably a different distribution: european education is maybe flattened around the average, while in the US there is possibly a wider distribution.