Yep! It is pretty damn sad that after 12+ years, so many kids are not in the least bit prepared for adulthood. As I have said before, they have a 'captive audience'. So much good could have been done, with parents benefiting as well. It takes 12+ years to learn the basics of english, math, science, and all the BS about our history? All that time and ignoring the importance of respect, gratitude, morals, ethics, unity, accountability, etc?
If we aren't getting the right people in positions of leadership, we are doomed. Just a matter of time.

There is a thing called Kagen, a method teachers are being forced to use, where in a nut shell, kids are grouped, and the smart kids are expected to 'help' (carry) the dumb or distracted kids in the group... ie, doing the teachers job...

This is Communism, collectivism by the back door.

Its slime.

You must learn to cope and work things out for yourself. IT DOES NOT, take a damned village.

The left just will NOT shut up, or give up with that crap.

All this does is make EVERYONE mediocre... the smart kids stop trying, and the dumb ones are, still dumb.