I used to work at a community college helping students with math that had rec’d a HS diploma but couldn’t pass college entrance exams. At the same time my own kids were having problems with math because their teachers couldn’t teach it; after a few conferences I found they had no compehension of math and just followed their teaching guides. And now Obama says he can just “decree” 100,000 new math teachers?
I managed to keep my grades up enough to remain in what was then termed college prep as well as the honor society, but I honestly did not care for the subject matter, it was boring and seemingly pointless. I didn’t have a teacher who had a clue until I got to college, in hindsight. My lightbulb moment occurred via coursework in statistics and probability, a very amusing field in some ways.