Can relate to this, growing up in a household with a fully Egyptian dad and a mom that wanted me to succeed in life. I was given constant augmentation to the "western" education, music, books, books, books, books, books, chess, chess, chess, extra curricular activities, and so on - I never really had any time to turn into a bad kid! Still, back to your point, it's an intentionally broken system, and by design as you're well aware. You're highly intelligent, and I sincerely appreciate that.

Where did you end up going to college, and may I ask what you studied out of sheer and natural curiosity?

There is also a great disparity between education even across the united states, for example in 1st grade, I was learning Spanish, in Illinois. When we moved to California, they did not offer foreign language until high school, but at least I started off with algebra in junior high school, and then geometry in 9th grade, alebra 2 trigonometry in 10th, precalculus in 11th (which I failed due to a terrible teacher), so I took it again in senior year with the same teacher to prove her wrong, and sat one desk behind the previous year's seating assignment. 😂.

It is sad.