What are the good residential schools for autistic children in England?

I am confused about something (American schools)?

• READ THIS QUESTION CAREFULLY AND THOROUGHLY IF YOU WANT TO COMPLETELY GET IT. OTHERWISE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO BOTHER ANSWERING. ALSO, GIVE POLITE, INTELLIGENT ANSWERS. THANKS. We have turned out some absolutely BRILLIANTLY clever people, like our NASA rocket scientists, astrophysicists, other scientists, doctors, etc...YET... Our high schools are...getting quite bad. I have attended both American schools and English schools, and our teaching system is, in my opinion, so much worse. Basically, we just read from a book, answer questions at the end of each unit, memorise (memorize) everything, and whoever has the best memory ends up doing the best. (Basically). I'm not saying that British schools don't require some good memory, but they do so much looking at both sides to an argument, really discussing things in detail, (e.g. in history), they analyse things, they write essays like there's no tomorrow, and they have GCSE's and A Levels to prepare them for Sixth Form and perhaps University later. I mean, in American high schools, they focus on ONE topic of math in a year! Like calculus one year, Trig another year, but English schools do all that in the early years of high school and steadily cover everything in their 5 years of high school. (What they call college:) My pen pal in America said, "You guys must be so ahead, if you've already done trigonometry", and she's only a year below me. And finally, grades are a LOT tougher to get over here in the UK, I've found. Over here, B's are AWESOME, and yet over in the States, you're (basically) only intelligent and the best if you get "straight A's". I hear SO much from fellow Americans about having a kid as a "straight A student", and that...In England, it's not really about straight A's, it's about doing well, and there's a difference. So back to my original question...Why do we turn out so many brilliant people like our rocket scientists and engineers, and yet not have a terribly great schooling system? I'm sure it's OK for people who have a good memory, but I feel that there's more to school than reading through a book, doing a few experiments here and there, taking notes, and an end to chapter test. Children who don't have good memories but might otherwise be very clever wouldn't do well in an American school and may do very well in an English school. So why do we, with our declining schools, turn out such clever people? Thank you:) xxxxx

• Answer:

  maybe those american rocket scientists learned their general knowledge grades k-12 and went to college for years and years. Or they went to private schools. That's just my guess