No doubt they're products of their school system

I attended a symposium at the Philippine Consulate Center on 5th Avenue the other day. It was given by Congressman Joey Salceda. One of the things he brought up was the fact that of all students taking a standardized test in English, math and science, only nine percent of students scored above 50%. Well, when it came time for questions and comments, a good chunk of the audience made it known how offended they were by those statistics... The audience had proven that they were products of this same educational system. The place was a zoo: people talking out of turn, making rude, unprofessional comments, making incoherent statements about unrelated topics. What a riot. You can't blame these people for their intellectual flaws. After all, they're just products of a flawed school system. Reminds me of some comments that Dr. Lenora Fulani made regarding parents of NYC's inner-city. Basically, she claimed that they were stupid, not because they were inherently predisposed toward stupidity, but because they were products of the NYC school system themselves.