Wow. I have a sophomore and haven't found your situation to be the case in our school. Your high schools are not actually preparing the students for college; I'm puzzled as to why this would seem to be acceptable.

The worst situation I've run across in our school regards the curriculum of some of the duel credit classes offered (credit for high school graduation plus credit for college). It seems that the students taking the classes (say, Spanish I) with the expectation of enrolling in Spanish II in college are finding that their Spanish I class didn't cover what it was supposed to. So, the kids are wholly unprepared for the college level Spanish II. Torque'd a few parents off who paid the college credit cost for the high school class just to have to pay again for their child to take the remedial class in college.