This is the state of American education

[Fragony]

My old roommate was a math teacher (with on the job training for the math part; turns out he didn't like it and he's teaching different subjects now) at some point. He once showed me a test they held for 14-15 year olds who attend VMBO, which is the lowest tier of high-school education in the Netherlands. The questions were extremely easy, to me anyway and I'm guessing for most of you as well. One of the questions involved some random backstory and a function graph, with a clear upward curve. The question was basically "how can you tell that [whatever it was that's represented by Y] is increasing"....

I was told that most of the class passed that test, but I imagine that they wouldn't have gotten the question in the OP right either.

I did math exams when it was still the mavo, did it on c. There three were overlapping overlapping circles which represented radio signals, question was which area could receive all signals. That question was worth 5 points. And before you laugh at me I did eventually end up on the VWO, skipped the Havo alltogether, skipped year 5 of the VWO and was allowed to do VWO exams the same year. That is skipping 3 years baby. Ended up on university the same year as the people who laughed when I said I wasn't doing mavo because I'm stupid.

(worked 3 year after Mavo, decided school was better)