Isn’t that the damn truth-I doubt that some of the graduates would recognize a boat oar/paddle, never mind knowing how to use it.
Keeping my kids in private school was worth every hard time and sacrifice made...
The modern public school system intentionally creates followers, not thinkers or doers. Today’s kids are unable to lean from one thing and transfer it to another.
I went to a rural public school but we still had decent teachers and we had plenty of real life adventures to learn from out of school.