This is the result of an education system that has been foisted on this nation and its been that way since Rockefeller and Carnegie pulled American farmers into their factories in the early 1900s. In 1902, John D. Rockefeller created the General Education Board at the ultimate cost of $129 million. The GEB provided major funding for schools across the nation and was very influential in shaping the current school system.
As Rockefeller put it, “I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.”
Even more compelling are the words of Frederick T Gates, business advisor to Rockefeller: “We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We are not to raise up among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians….” https://www.jetsetmag.com/exclusive/business/nation-workers-public-education-dummying-labor-force/
You know who else has made a huge impact on the American education system don't ya? They have influenced over half of the states in the US to adopt their curriculum? The curriculum called common core?
I'll give you a hint
Bill Gates.
Bill Gates is responsible for getting our education system to adopt common core as it's curriculum.