they are taught just to get the answer
This is one of the reasons why I didn't do well in school (and also hated it, although as I've said previously I also don't have the correct brain/learning type for academia anyway). It didn't seem to have changed much some decades later when my daughter tried high school (one of many reasons we chose to homeschool).
This is not even on the teachers, most of them would be doing their absolute best, sometimes the kid's brain just isn't ready to accept what they're being shown.
Everyone seems to have the answers, until they actually have to make it happen.
job applicants are using AI to generate their CVs and cover letters, and then companies are using AI to filter them, because there are so many applications
This is a problem eldest is facing to the point where he's just waiting to get his accreditation and then waiting to see if the class that he's hopefully going to get once he gets it manages to get off the ground. Every now and again he gets so demoralised he just gives up job hunting, though he is now also looking at other TAFE courses (the one he had originally applied for kind of exploded around him, that level of admin difficulties was something to behold) and trying to figure out how to get things like forklift tickets and working at heights to try to make himself more interesting.
kids who have the memory required to do well at school, but have no idea what they are actually doing
This was my vague recollection when blundering through school and definitely at uni and as a young adult where in the groups I was hanging out with WHAT DIDN'T YOU LEARN THAT AT SCHOOL was a very common catchcry over some very basic things (some of which were definitely taught at school if nothing else and some which probably should have been learned from primary caregivers but one of many topics of conversation at uni is how "this, that and the otther basic life skill should be taught in school" and I think I was the only one who asked when and where in the curriculum it should fit as a lot of the "missing" skills were life skills but the primary caregivers were working full time and either too tired/didn't bother or didn't know to do it when everone was home).
My kids also noted that with some of their friends who went to school.
Everyone seems to have the answers, until they actually have to make it happen.
In the handful of cases where I've actually watched this unfold it seems to be everyone and everything else's fault. In a couple of the cases it was very much a narcissistic thing but this does make the rest of the cases make a bit more sense.