I’m not sure how recently you have seen our public school system but do you really believe that we are teaching those children adequately in math and science?
More often, the class sizes are too large and thanks to lawyers, encumbered with various mental issues, deficiencies and often students incapable of speaking English. I have family who are teachers and I am overwhelmed with stories of the nightmares in our classrooms and being required to teach to the standard tests.
This is not the formula for our children’s and our nation’s success. Our only hope of keeping pace with the rest of the world is to break the logjam created my lawyers, the teacher’s unions, and liberals to get our technologically-inclined youth into schools that can hone and perfect those skills.
There isn’t any room left for just cruising through school and majoring in parties.
My experience is very recent, and also ongoing.
Yours?
You OTOH, seem to be relying primarily on the B&Ms/ horror stories of your (teacher)relatives.
In my recorded experience as an active and concerned parent, in four different Counties, involving two States over a 12 year span:
My formal complaints/actions against curriculum is 0, against individual teachers is 3, against administrative, non-instructional related school policies or lack thereof, is well over 20.
Yes, I do believe that most children, in most public K-12 schools are offered adequate instruction in math and science.
I also believe that absent direct and active parental support and involvement in public education at the individual school and individual student level, serious non-instructional related problems will breed and multiply.