I personally think the transition to "western school system", which we have held for several years, a piece of shit.
Learning System - manure. The mass training material is totally left data, right up to Napoleon's pants after his failure in the battle of Borodino.
System testing - SHIT AND STILL ANY. Given the fact that it affects the choice of learning a profession in high school (and this happens), it is unable to fully unleash the potential of the student. All the recent years simply hand cramming answers to tests. And considering that none of the test is not immune from mistakes (and even more so here, where the number of matches with the right questions in test books is only 65-75%), this turns into a big nightmare.
The twelve-year education system - crap. The older generation were eight classes of learning, but what were the people are they!
Together with the collapse of the Soviet Union, we pissed away one of the best educational systems in the world. And now we transited on the Western system, although it is much poorer Soviet educational system. I'm not only one time to say it - WESTERN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IS SUCKS.
And even if I have long been studying at the university, but I still empathize those guys who have to suffer all this humiliation.