>>13763810I can only speak for the US:
Up to like sixth grade, it's pretty okay, of course you need to teach people how to read and write and do basic math. Afterwards it's a fucking mess.
Six more years of learning shit I'm probably never going to use while being bitched at by teachers whenever I have to take a piss or something equally normal in the middle of class. Six years of asking math teachers when I'm ever going to need to graph an equation or use trigonometry while they give vague answers about college, leaving me completely uninterested in anything math-related. I didn't gain an interest in math until halfway through my first college course, which I failed. I'm just awestruck that not a single math teacher would point to something cool you can do with math (obviously way out of our league but still interesting) like calculate a missile's trajectory and intercept it, calculate how much power a computer processor will use under certain conditions, or fucking anything else that would have been a solid example.
Also in my senior year of high school I signed up for AP computer science and IT fundamentals and both those classes were cancelled because they didn't have an instructor for them and my Chinese teacher told us she wasn't certified to teach it, she was just fluent in Chinese and also an English teacher so the school forced her into it.