Are the reasons why the education in the U.S. is failing due to selection bias?

I've been curious about this issue all day. We all know that the American education system (from K to 12th grade) is not preparing kids for both college and the future and kids not caring about school in general. But my question is, is this all coming from selection bias? Are all these coming from mainly inner city and rural schools (who are mostly underfunded and, well at least for inner city ones, chaotic and overcrowded) rather than suburban and private schools (who are usually more funded, less chaotic and less overcrowded). My mom thinks that American education gets a bad rep because they get most of their statistics from public schools located in poor inner city areas filled with minorities and whatnot and ignore those from more affluent areas or suburban areas (and even ignoring private schools). I don't know about rural or suburban schools or schools that are predominantly white outside cities or in suburbs, but I did go to grade school here in Queens NY (which technically counts as inner city, but there are so many top high schools here in NYC that not every school is bad), and I went to a fairly average public high school that is very ethnically diverse. As far as I can tell, the system is just bad: forcing kids to take regents and studying for them for the purpose of passing with a 65 (55 if you're in special ed) to get a diploma rather than what you learned, the majority of kids don't care about learning (even those who are 'college ready' really only care about grades than learning), very overcrowded and security guards everywhere making sure everyone stays inside. So is the issue with American education the same everywhere or is it only in selected areas (namely public schools in inner cities or poorer areas)?

Submitted February 20, 2020 at 11:48PM by rbuen4455 https://ift.tt/2Pe6EmJ