What's with the whining about schools?

I just listened on the radio and some parent was saying how there is so much pressure on kids in schools, that they get too much homework blah blah blah
WTF ?? maybe they should get 4 months off instead of 2 in the summers ?? what is up with schooling in america ? have any of these parents and kids looked at how much tougher schools are in europe and people don’t wine about it ? my wife said that she just doesn’t get how a person going to college can drop out because they got F’s… how you can pay so much for college and just slack off ? that just doesn’t happen in Europe. I think kids there take school a lot more seriously and treasure whatever they have a lot more than in the states… need to get this off my chest as I just don’t get all this whining.