"Hey bro, you should do some fact checking first before you throw out statements with certainty like that. The USA happens to be #2 in the world, behind Canada and ahead of Japan."
Based on what criteria? Do you have a source for that? Because I have taught at institutions of higher education in four countries on three continents so are we talking about:
1) Years of average education? I think you are basing off that. Problem there is it ignores quality.
2) Qualification of the teachers? Because that depends on where they went to school.
3) Standardized test scores?
4) Some shit you pulled out of your ass?
There are a lot of ways to have an "educational system," up to and including (in my opinion) teaching things that are largely ignored in the US educational system, such as how to cook, manage a budget, treat older or disabled folks, or raise non-hysterical children.
One problem in the US is that the parents tend to be pretty hysterical and dysfunctional and obsessive, and so this rubs off on the children. That is also an example of an educational system.