On the level of elementary school education, I can't much comment on the situation in the last two decades as I don't have any experience, but on the mid-eighties situation I can: in 7th-8th grade I went to school in West Germany, and they were behind compared to the curriculum in Hungary in maths, physics, geography, biology and history; and I think only geography was taught on a higher quality.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}