Reminder, you win by learning the material, not by completing the homework.
I clearly don't understand how difficult life is outside the US. Yes, it is important to know the material. However, it is also important to know your surroundings and what everyone else is doing. If you are in India and literally everyone else is cheating in exams, well you better start doing that as well just to keep up. If you are gen alpha and everyone else is using ChatGPT to polish essays, ...
And that's not to say the behavior doesn't exist in the US, just maybe in a different social strata or subculture than you're in. Specifically, the phrase "tiger mom" entered our lexicon due to a book written by a (ethnically) Chinese woman, but is not limited to it.
A lot of the system is based off of memorization and paperwork anyways. Something an AI can do all day, every day.
And corporation can be even simpler if you get in right types of roles, where no hard skills might be needed.
An idiot may be able to fake being a medical doctor with the right AI, but only until someone realizes they can fire the useless human.
Parents income and zip codes impact educational attainment more than class rank outside of the oligarchy anyways.
Opportunity and social mobility is far more restricted in the US than most people realize.
This is in part why the college debt is problematic, valuing a piece of paper over the education itself is already a bubble that has popped.
1) Do you have a comparison with European countries that makes you think the US is worse?
2) What do you think US mobility numbers should look like? Pure randomness is not desirable either.
What we need to start focusing on is teaching children how to use AI to evaluate their solutions. We also need an AI built for students that can mentor children and help them develop their own solution.
Shielding children from the technologies that's going to be part of their world doesn't seem wise. They'll push the technology in new and unexpected directions.
I haven't understood the GGP's point of view until your comment. Those kids are competing by grade, not by knowledge!
This is messed up to a different level than a lot of people here will expect.
That's not really true. At least in my experience.
Since I graduated nobody cared about my grades at all. On the other hand everyone cared if I can do stuff.
When I was applying for Uni my grades mattered very little and my performance on standarised and proctored tests mattered a lot.
I guess it might be different where you have grown up?
That's called "winning the battle and losing the war".