An understatement. These indicators of the failure of our education system are via Three Percenter; the list of all 50 is here.

• only 36% of all Americans can name the three branches of government
• only 25% of all Americans know how long US Senators are elected for (6 years), and only 20% of all Americans know how many US senators there are
• 1% of American young adults in the 18 to 34-year-old age bracket are currently living with their parents
• 25% of all employees that have Internet access in the United States visit sex websites while they are at work
• 30 million Americans are on antidepressants [that’s roughly 10% of our total population]
• Americans account for about five% of the global population, but we buy more than 50% of the pharmaceutical drugs
• 60 million Americans have a problem with alcohol addiction
• small business ownership in the United States is at the lowest level that has ever been recorded
• approximately one out of every three children in the United States lives in a home without a father
• Americans in the 15 to 24-year-old age group account for about 50% of all new STD cases each year

Notice that: both children currently in our “education” system, and adults recently passed through it.

Hmm….