@PawelK It's public education in the US. We were prepared to learn how to be criminals or join the military. Public schools are K-12 or little kid to old enough to go to prison or enlist in the military.

There's a lot of racism involved and disguised as politics or another pseudoscience. Public education used to be much better but due to new Mathematics and a War on Drugs, parents can't even help their children with homework. The parents don't know how to do it either.

As a Mathematician it infuriates me to see Education as a major and somehow those dipshits get to fuck up generations of students. Learning Science the real way might make some kids cry but they will have learned Science.

Low income is just an excuse. Children in those environments are exposed to nearly anything one could imagine. No amount of money is going to make their home life better and no teaching is going to save them from going to prison or joining the military. Police presence was always an issue and we learned to not talk to them. They are only there to send kids to kid jail.

It wouldn't be fair to call public education a failure because a failure doesn't imply sabotage.