There is a missing element in the U.S. education system, a big one, AWOL since the 1980s. Its absence has been made more palpable by the obscene U.S. income gap, combined with the pandemic and the fact that the U.S. has become one of the most socially complicated countries. We are at the point where a clerical error on a routine form may put your life in danger. This means the nation is brittle, without much slack in the multi-algorithmic systems that rule our lives now. It is not difficult to slip up and go from victor to victim in a few hours.
