What is your evidence for this? It seems like there is growing frustration with the realization that we may have an economically useless cohort about to hit the real world.
I'd say grade inflation is the clearest evidence. It has been a widespread, long-simmering issue; I've heard teachers bemoan the phenomenon in at least 3 different countries in as many decades, and each of them cited the ire of the public as the underlying reason.
I think the growing frustration is real, but it's coming more from employers than the populace in general.
High Schools don’t support teachers who are confronted by angry parents who are mad that you are ruining their kids chance at an Ivy by giving them a B- in HS algebra (meanwhile the ivies remedial math classes are packed more than ever)
> High Schools don’t support teachers who are confronted by angry parents
When I took the California high school exit exam, it was already a joke. Still, the news was filled with people treating every failure as a failure of the test.
I think the growing frustration is real, but it's coming more from employers than the populace in general.