Maybe your students find your universities (I've never heard anyone from the US use the term University before, it's uplifting) a bit more challenging because they were ill-prepared in grade-school (as you mentioned).

I've never heard that US Universities were any more difficult or challenging than those in Canada and Europe. Expensive, yes. Sometimes very difficult to get into, yes.

Bruno
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