The obsession with Finland's education system is rather stupid. I mean, they are doing innovative stuff and someday the US might want to follow those footsteps,

The obsession with Finland's education system is rather stupid. I mean, they are doing innovative stuff and someday the US might want to follow those footsteps, but first you need to fix the basic stuff, stuff that Finland had fixed a long time ago. First of, you cannot nurture and educate a child if they spend eight hours a day in a horrendously underfunded inner city school and the rest of the day living in a poor dysfunctional household without any mentors and good role models.