the American education system is absolutely fucked
I’ve always felt it’s a cultural issue. Just about every kid I knew thought that school was the worst prison imaginable. It was something to hate. If you disagreed with that, you were a “nerd” and should be mocked and bullied for it. That was reflected in the media at the time I grew up too.
What I don’t really get though is how people can read plurals every day 100 times with their own eyes and still not internalize how they work.