[CottonBall]

It is an unfortunate reality that there are many people who are not equipped to get along in a capitalist system. They lack some combination of (rarely) the basic intelligence and (much more frequently) the emotional maturity and self-discipline required to make their way in a world in which others are not looking out for them.

That's exactly it. That's the same mentality that makes people say they're not responsible for buying a house that could never afford.

As education gets dumbed down more with each passing year, we get more people incapable of acting like adults.

[Leisler]

Detroit has a 25% graduation rate, and what fine graduates those are. Commonly, urban HS have rates around 50%.
( I suspect the rates are even worse, but long story )

These kids would learn more math on the streets, borrowing from leg breakers than the Public Skools.

The kids are victims. Victims of the unions, the administrators and the politicians.

Yeah, “the parents”. The problem is the parents went through the same ‘skools’. So now the system is bullet proof and self sustaining.

The parents you are thinking of, died out generations ago.