Schools Vs American Schools

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The school systems in America have been messed of for a good amount of time now. It’s time for us to make a difference in American school systems. Other countries in the world have amazing school systems that by far outrank The United States, take Finland for example. They have the best school system in the World! They have shorter schools days, no homework for kids and they still manage to beat us when it comes to learning! This is unacceptable when the U.S is the leader in everything else. So we need to step our game up and fast. Here are a few of the reasons how I think we can make our Country and school systems great again! First off, we aren’t teaching students the way they should be taught. Each student is different like EA said in the

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