Last year, only about 28% of NYC high school graduates tested out as college-ready. With politicians tying teachers' hands as to classroom discipline, so that thugs can daily disrupt everyone else's learning, and the foisting of nonsensical curricula such as Commie Core on schools by politicians who don't know anything about education, this is not a surprise. I do not doubt that this is not restricted to NYC high school graduates, and I fear for our country in its future needs for intelligent people to hold jobs.
I think you are grossly understating the problem, from what I see it would appear that “students” are GRADUATING from college needing more years of remedial classes than they did when they started first grade. Certainly the immaturity being displayed would not have been tolerated for one minute in a first grade classroom circa 1950 when I entered first grade. Any college student acting in such a way in the state of South Carolina would most likely have wound up in a state hospital for the mentally ill.
Lest anyone be uncertain, allow me to add that I am not being in any way sarcastic or facetious. I mean the above comment to be taken literally.