I agree with you on that. Hopefully this very loud debate sheds more light on both problems and both problems get fixed. I’m a retired high school science teacher. I can tell you that some of our students were the absolute best at math and science, competed at the state level in UIL and won in comp sci and science.They were absolute workers and the nicest kids you could ask for. That was at the end of my career. We used to have more kiddos like that at the beginning of my career, there was a 15-20 year period where students wanted the grades to get into college but they didn’t want to put in the work. We’re swinging back the other direction right now, but we still have a long way to go. I think both points are valid but we have to fix our education system too and that means parents aka society is going to have to start focusing on learning more and extracurricular activities aka sports and league ball a lot less. I can tell you that sports is what drove our entire academic schedule, who taught what and when, our bell schedule and even our school calendar, all based on sports. It was utter bs.