Totally agree.
I said something recently to a young person about concentric circles. He had no idea what I was talking about. Well educated college grad, but no knowledge of what concentric circles are.
I know quite a few others who had worse happen. They have degress and diplomas but they don't know how to do square routes, Algebra, read at a college level or even know about important dates and events in American history or world history for that matter.
We have kids now who are entering University but do not know what happened in the years 1066, 1095, 1215, 1415, 1519, 1558, 1587, 1619, 1812, 1863, unless it was on a movie or a series or if South Park talked about it. They don't even know arithamatic or never read a book more than 20 pages for a book report. They can't even find countries or states on a map.
These same kids usually will tell you that for the economy to work the rich have to be taxed 90% of their wealth and given away to people who are poor by choice then by disaster, they believe that America is a white supremacist dictatorship and that South Africa's constitution is superior to our own. They even think that Islam is superior to Christianity.
Is it any wonder then that Employers in big companies would rather hire people from other countries that have superior educational systems than our own?
I intend to write an article about this later date.