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Kids should be learning Calculus by age 12.

Why? How many people would ever use it?

I had calculus in 12th grade about 30 years ago.

Teachers simply made sure that learning was by rote and boring for all but a chosen few students.

Nowadays I find myself touching on higher math subjects in my work.

And it becomes painfully clear that the whole point of public school is to allow most student's educational process to turn off.

Indoctrination is pursued instead. Unless a student proves too stubborn and streetwise to it. In that case the student is simply ignored as much as possible.

In holding young students back, it's not so much what the teacher does, it's what they don't do. They simply stick to the textbook, page by page, without ever stepping back and getting the student mentally organized about the big picture of mathematics. A conservative student shows promise - actually exhibits signs of being very bright ? Don't dare ever take that kid aside and turn him on to all the various fields of higher math.

If you take a really good education and compare it to public school, public school is just the opposite.

Learn by rote, learn facts only, learn the left-wing version of the facts, add in some indoctrination to new world order myths, etc.

Don't dare ever teach logic. Do not ever give an overview of the Bible, then proceed on to philosophy, so the student can see where the "philosophers" are going wrong in so many ways. The student instead must only be exposed to the mythical version of American history according to new world order, so these myths can be used to create the student's own mental foundation for morality.

Stay clear of any situation where the student might start exploring and learning on their own. Keep them going from quiz to quiz, test to test. Make sure to babble in a monotone and have "teacher's favorites", so any bright kids will basically fall into a holding pattern, waiting to graduate.

Also, don't ever discuss accounting, i.e., a profit and loss statement and a balance sheet. Students might start understanding debt and equity.

Never teach anything about the law. Almost all of the population will be completely ignorant of legal principles, and thus be easy to control and mess with, legally and financially.