So I own a burger restaurant in the bay area................. You would be surprised by both the number of people that can't do basic math (i.e. figure out wha

So I own a burger restaurant in the bay area................. You would be surprised by both the number of people that can't do basic math (i.e. figure out what combination of coins leads to $8.72) and the number of people that want a minimum wage job while they already have a college degree (worst being one in CS...in the bay area? really? followed up by a foreign MBA...) Also, one day I was standing at a bus stop near the restaurant waiting to go back home and I listened to 3 ~18 year olds talking about their college classes. This is roughly how the conversation went: "that fucking bitch (at the local college) won't let me take statistics. just because I failed algebra 2 doesn't mean I can't do math. I'm really good at math! I passed geometry and shit! why can't I just take that statistics class?" "yeah algebra is really hard. I took regular algebra in high school and i had a lot of problems...I think I have to do it again" "I'm really bad at math. I have to take a couple math classes to graduate, so I might just drop out of school. I can't do that shit, I don't know how you can go on about wanting to take statistics". Then they went on about how science, english, and other general education requirements are bullshit. So I'm standing there - went to college at 16, forgot more math than all of them combined will ever learn, read biochem texts for fun on holiday and I _want_ to have the luxury to study hard and go to med school. My parents sacrificed a lot to do everything they could for me too - their parents couldn't. Life is unfair. I had flashbacks to high school where everyone in my program within an inner city school were in honors precalc or AP calc AB/BC and AP statistics classes, but we shared PE classes with the "regular" school and we helped a lot of our fellow students learn basic algebra to pass high school exit exams and tests in between activities. Makes me want to figure out how to overhaul education in the US - it's garbage and it's failing everyone - my program full of "geniuses" and the single parents working a job struggling to graduate high school alike.