"J. Clarke" wrote:

The schools are a miserable experience that produce mediocre results.
The argument that they are better than nothing doesn't wash. What did
you personally learn in the public schools school other than to read
and write and do sums that was of any real value in later life?

Touch typing. Driver's Ed. Drafting. History and Government. Wood shop.
Chemistry and Physics. Geometry, Trig, and Intro to Calculus. (If you'd like
to include those in "sums", that's fine.) -- Doug