This story is true whether you reside in Canada or the USA.  Things have changed and not for the better, I'm afraid.  When we're discussing "schooling" these days, it really has nothing at all to do with education, and the students certainly don't care if they're "learning anything" or not.  In fact, I think they're more stupid when they graduate than they were as first graders these days.

" . . . they are the most influential pedlars of leftist hallucinations, graduating an army of gainfully unemployable millennials and propagandized radicals trained to carry forth their program of social destabilization and “egalitarian” coercion.

As British writer James Delingpole notes, the schools have turned out “a powerful electoral bloc of brainwashed little Marxists” who have been rendered “entirely unfit for any career outside the taxpayer-funded bureaucratic state.” "

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/common_sense_and_common_folk.html