Many primary school teachers can’t find the area of a rectangle and yet the US still has among the best Maths departments in the world. The determined effort to

Many primary school teachers can’t find the area of a rectangle and yet the US still has among the best Maths departments in the world. The determined effort to confuse the two notwithstanding, the main purpose of the K12 system is warehousing children, not education. To a truly remarkable extent incompetent teachers don’t matter.