"our educational system can lack perspective and unfortunately fails to teach the whole story"

True, Ron. However, something most people fail to take into account is that schools do not set their own curricula. They are set by the State or Province. Now, schools have inhereted the responsibility of teaching kids about crossing streets, traffic lights, body cleanliness and a gang of other things that should likely have been taught in the home. The fact that a person doesn't know something is not always the fault of a school. It is sometimes the fault of a society. IMO.

The above is not directed at you.