Whoa, I didn't know things had gotten that crazy. A lot of it is driven by the specialization that has taken place, and how could that get anything but worse? At the K-12 level it is too bad the Marxist Paolo Friere not only continues to be influential but seems to be actually gaining in influence. It has been the case for many decades that kids weren't learning much in K-12 schools, but now you can't even find a college program where your kids can have a taste of a real humanities education.