Well on a macro scale American often tends to neglect the K-12 education, make college inaccessible due to costs and then think that some government retraining

Well on a macro scale American often tends to neglect the K-12 education, make college inaccessible due to costs and then think that some government retraining program whose duration is measured in months can turn X skilled labor force into members of Y knowledge/office worker force later in life. For clarity I kind of want to say we neglect K-12 education funding, but compared to much of the world that's not true in terms of pure spending per head in the school. Perhaps more accurate we don't exactly get bang for our buck in many school systems.