If we had good sorting, we'd be routing half our kids into trade schools where they learn useful skills, and route the other half of our kids into real college

If we had good sorting, we'd be routing half our kids into trade schools where they learn useful skills, and route the other half of our kids into real college prep high schools where the slow track would do calculus and the fast track would do differential equations. I mean that's also a world in which the humanities don't seem to exist at all.