After 12 years of schooling and 120k spent, the kids are barely qualified to work at McDonalds. So then they go off to college for 120k and then they are qualified to do not much of anything but they have a piece of paper so they can now make 30k a year.
What you say is true. My sister teaches middle school math in inner city Baltimore. At the end of a full year of math education, many of them cannot grasp the concept of “one-half.”