One of the more instructive things in America is how really smart people raise their kids. Hint: it usually involves keeping phones and TVs and all the other garbage away from them. Meanwhile, the dumb parents from my generation make sure to get a phone in their kids' hands by age 8 and make all sorts of other choices for them that reduce education to 5th or 6th on the list of priorities.
The thing that should frighten everyone is how quickly we're fading behind other countries, including ones most of us probably thought we would never see from behind.