School has given straight-a grades to the student, who can't do masic math

I was tutoring math last year to high schoolers; I had one student who was receiving B’s in math at her public high school, and she could not do -4 times 1 or correctly answer 2 divided by 2.

So many odd aspects to this. The mom was already an activist involved in education and was going to question the state's approach to education even before she found out her kid was struggling with maths. And she thinks she was decieved by his Elementary School even though he's bright and industrious and running his…

This is very common in Chicago where I was a teaching instructor in a former life and witnessed this behavior across the board. If (many, not all) public schools forced students to learn math where they were supposed to learn, unfortunately, the entire system would come to a stop, as almost no students can do basic…