Look at who Salem is hiring, and the material the teacher's colleges choose to work with.
The modern college student who should be apprenticed as a lifetime coffee barista, since he/she/it can't make change without a calculator, have been steered into ED programs for years.
As an addendum, these are the ones who are whining the loudest about having $300,000 overdue student loans.
This past summer, a high school girl (white, probably a Junior) was manning the deli in the local supermarket, I asked her for four ounces of roast beef. She stood there completely dumbfounded, so I asked her “What’s wrong?” She replied “We only sell roast beef by the pound.”
I thought to myself “This is going to be fun.”
I asked her how many ounces are in a pound. She didn’t know. I told her 16 and asked her what fraction of 16 ounces was 4 ounces.
I might as well have been asking my dog. I gave up and ordered a quarter pound of roast beef.
That really drove home how screwed we are as a nation.