I have a better one for you. I am teaching calculus and at a review session somebody asked me a question that required them to divide, say, x^3-3x^2+2x-10 by x-2 and get a quadratic polynomial plus a leftover term.
I said that they learned it in 4th grade and proceeded to do long division of polynomials.
It was as if I wrote Greek on the board. Not only had they not learned this in high school (and many claim to have had "calculus" in high school) they couldn't even understand that is the same thing. It wasn't "long division" as they knew it because it had variables.
There's no teaching of the basics nor is there any creativity. It's the worst of both worlds.
Somewhat unrelated question: What text were you using?