I agree. I attended some of the best public schools in our state from 6-12th grade, and I never had a grammar or vocabulary test. On the flip side, my kids went to one of the worst high schools in the same state, and they learned how to diagram sentences. I thought the BC Calc AP exam was the easiest test ever and have an excellent Trig foundation, but yet I never saw matrices until college. There are gaps in every education.