Are kids learning enough to maintain their finances, do their taxes, and vote in a way that integrates historical knowledge? It's not my experience that the av

Are kids learning enough to maintain their finances, do their taxes, and vote in a way that integrates historical knowledge? It's not my experience that the average 18 year old knows any of those things, and the article suggests that many people aren't coming away from school with basic literacy or numeracy. This all goes back to a point I alluded to in my first post. When someone suggests that public education is badly broken and perhaps could use an overhaul, they are bombarded with arguments about the importance of education that seem to ignore the fact that a very disappointingly large number of people are not, in fact, receiving anywhere near that level of education.