Your comments are very interesting. Our older son was 2 classes ahead of his younger brother. For the most part he was exposed and taught real math. His younger brother was exposed to the bs that you joke about in your reply.
We did not realize what was happening to our younger son. By the time we realized, he was in hs, hated math and did terrible if he had a real math teacher. He had to learn math the hard way in reality when he was graduated from high school. He is now good in basic math, but there is no thanks to the touchy feeling stuff that he got in Marin county and obviously later in Sacramento during his first 4-5 years of school. By then the damage had been done to him!