<font color="purple">I fel like I'm getting totally ripped off! I mean, our country isn't doing that bad but it's waaaay behind other industrialised countries as well. I want to be the smartest person I can be while I'm at the stage of absorbing all information like a sponge, but it's like I'm never going to reach my potential like the kids my age in Europe and Asia (etc.)

I mean, I've been studying Spanish for 5 YEARS now and were still doing only what I call the basic stuff. It's so frustratingly slow!

Oh, and did I mentoin that I live in New York, which has some of the highest standards for education in the country? (Vermont apparently has the baest though) Gee, it makes me wonder what the rest of the country is like... </font>