If our educational complexes can't successfully hammer Algebra II into someone's head, why does this Wheeler fellow think they'd be any more successful hammerin

If our educational complexes can't successfully hammer Algebra II into someone's head, why does this Wheeler fellow think they'd be any more successful hammering something else into it? Compared to the complexity of just about anything that is real, Algebra II is like learning to crawl or use silverware. Odds are, the educational system is failing just as badly on every other subject. It's just harder to screw up the metric on something as objective as mathematics.