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There are a lot of people that are just "under" educated in the US and it really shows in their grammar, most of them don't even know they're making a mistake.

Our educated system is slowly becoming really a two tiered system, a "they'll live, pass them to the next grade" and "this kid really wants to learn everything he can". The first is more of the "norm" now, teachers try to do more but when it comes down to test scores or limited amount of time to teach a lesson and then move to the next level they'll fall back and just move on. (Since there is often pressure by administration to cover a set amount of material in the year even if students are not really learning all of it)

The second requires the student to do the work and ask the teacher to teach them that information. Only the students that really care about their education and see that it's there FOR them rather then just something forced upon them tend to do this. In my high school years a great deal of the stuff I found really interesting or valuable was taught to me by my teachers either before class, after class, or during lunch. I would have questions which I knew would take extra time to explain or would be "above" most the class so I would hang around after class time to get them answered and that was really the time when I was able to get deep into a subject and actually learn stuff. My last two years of high school I often spent an extra hour after school talking to my teachers while they would clean up the room or prepare for the next school day, hell, my first two years in college I spent a great deal of time after class pushing for more information on a subject.

I remember more then once being really glad when a college class would get out like two hours early because the teacher gave us a lab that could be completed at home or just wanted us to review for a test or something and I would just have one or two questions to ask the instructor right after class and by the time I left the building it was either right at or past the normal time the class let out!

Edit: Also, I really wasn't a "loser" or "geek" in high school at all, I still had a pretty large group of friends that I hung out with at school and while people would come up to me and say "I know you're smart, can you help me with this..." no one ever targeted me for being a teachers pet or part of the un-cool "nerd group". I was normal, I just knew that I had a really great resource in front of me and how to exploit it, not much can get done in the class room compared to one on one or a small group that really CARES about what's being taught.