I would also like to add, most students I went to highschool with had sub high school level reading skills. Quite a few were illiterate and were passed just to get them out of school. Many dropped out before senior year. Most of the schools in my parish were rated D-F. Somethings are just not taught but that speaks to a much larger societal problem and I would say cultural as well. In areas like mine, these are not valued skills.