https://thelibertydaily.com/american-children-are-so-bad-math-its-actually/Not "becoming" fricken "IS"!
And it is not just rote learning, it is learning, period! And it is dependent upon union teachers beholden to left-wing agendas of no moron left behind, no wrong answers and a plethora of woke BS!
Only way it gets corrected is by breaking unions, eliminating federal funds and the only mandate being actual quantifiable positive results.