That was basically the same as my experience. However what I should have included more explicitly is that, if we’re failing a lot of “successful” high school st

That was basically the same as my experience. However what I should have included more explicitly is that, if we’re failing a lot of “successful” high school students, what are we doing for the average student, let alone the below average one? Due to the expense, college seems to dominate a lot of educational conversations we have in this country. However, I feel like the issues start way earlier than that. It seems like we fail at getting the average student in primary and secondary school to internalize the point of a lot of why we’re teaching things, what they’re useful, how they apply to life, and, maybe most importantly, why there interesting. It doesn’t help that the life value of a lot of subjects have more than one value: history and English class seem on face value to just teach you about our cultural forces, but the real value in the subject is to read and write in a critical manner. Math seems totally useless to a lot of people after you learn long division because the word problems we deal with are incredibly contrived, and we don’t teach the most important part of math, formal reasoning very well. In my opinion, fewer people should go to college but because their K-12 education should leave them with a much stronger toolset to face challenges in work and personal life.