How do school systems work in places like the US?

How do school systems work in places like the US?
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Whatever the similarities or differences, it does not work in the US. School systems in the US, public or private, have less to do with intellectual development, and more to do with social “progress” whatever that is. We got this bullshit from John Dewey. You are lucky he did not live in Ireland.
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