I absolutely agree ! I hated maths from (eu school system) 5 (earliest) to 7 (mid). I couldn't calculate stuff with formulas, weren't able to change / refactor variable in formulas, and don't get started on geometry...

Guess what in 8th or 9th (10 = last class) class I started to love mathematics because I wanted to understand the universe. I would take the diameter of the biggest black hole (at that time) known to mankind so far and scale the solar system down to a comparable and imaginable size. The Sum would be a tennis ball.
Long story short I found out that my 300 000 -600 000 people big city is the black hole and the tennis ball is the sun compared to it.
Basically I wanted to learn more about geometry BECAUSE I WAS ABLE TO USE IT IN THE REAL WORLD! That did the trick for me to love geometry aside from black holes and size.

If you want to work as a programmer, do you need to know what cells and viruses do what ? U'll forget it anyway because it does not interest you. Your brain will get rid of those uninteresting things during the defragmention process.

There should be topic schools for not all but a big amount of jobs.

If I want to become an Astrophysist then it would make more sense to build a school for astronomy. so that I can attend it early on.The job industry will become 100x more efficent because you get people who are motivated for the job , learn efficient.