What Are Our Schools Doing ???

According to some reports, our schools are NOT teaching our kids what it takes to compete in the modern world:

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-ranks-27th-for-healthcare-and-education-2018-9

But they seem to do quite well teaching them things once considered to be perversions:

Source - https://summit.news/2020/03/03/school-in-brooklyn-hands-out-drag-queen-in-training-stickers-to-4-year-olds/

What kind of school would do such a thing? What kind of parents would tolerate it?