Oh, I have no doubts K-12 is worse than our universities.
Spend some time in Europe, and you’ll see that’s the case. Not only do their students clock ours through the whole process and coming out, they end up several years ahead of us.
The first year and half or so of most of our universities is spent catching up to where your average European is when they graduate high school.
We do ultimately surpass them, in my opinion, and our universities generally require quite a bit more work than do theirs.
That said, our universities are full of some absolute crazies...
Full of PC nonsense like Black studies, chicano studies, social justice, lesbian studies, etc etc.