My point is it left us ill-prepared for the world. When you are incapable of actually doing anything, there’s not much you can do. I’m going to generalize here, but in my high school, we were given absolutely no vocational training. I still barely know how to do my taxes. Practical things like that were not taught to us since that’s not related to reading, writing, or math. Or classes only focused on typically academic subjects, ignoring practicality. Basically, we weren’t taught anything that cannot be tested for. add that on top of the shit we were left with and is any surprise that there’s not anything we can do?
Maybe it wasn’t handed to you, but no one but yourselves is stopping you guys from learning skills now, or at the very least, using what you know to try to push to give the next generation greater access to shop and home economics classes, etc.; if you know the problems that you had, don’t make it worse by going around making the world more P.C., make it tougher on your future kids. I probably wouldn’t be where I am today if I didn’t have a great hands on computer maintenance class in High School, to be fair. Though, honestly, what kid would get anything they should out of a class on doing taxes years down the road (I think you over reached on that one)? Yes there are things that suck for you, but you’re not incapable of improving things on your own; the way it appears to everyone else is that you’re stamping your feet, complaining and crying loudly that things aren’t fair the way you were told they would be and you want us to all acknowledge that and feel sorry for you, you just haven’t figured out what to do once you’ve accomplished that.