I wonder how much money is spent on students playing catch-up after enrolling into colleges because they can barely read, write or do basic math. I've seen plen

I wonder how much money is spent on students playing catch-up after enrolling into colleges because they can barely read, write or do basic math. I've seen plenty of this kind of thing in study groups during my 2 years of community college and it was really fascinating to witness this level of illiteracy especially having lived in Eastern Europe where even the poorest of poor received good public education. It's absolutely awful and there had to be significant money invested to keep that going. Our public schools are an absolute disaster and cutting costs to higher education should start here. I don't know what this entails. Perhaps paying teachers more in order to attract more talent? Replace GEDs with night schools for adults without age restrictions?