So you ARE saying that parents throughout the rest of the world are superior. That the ignorance of high school and college students in the US is the result of poor parenting and not the fault of the schools.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.