Sense, Nonsense, and Not-Sense

"Now, I wonder how much of this is the prevailing attitude in the country’s schools that skills at maths and sciences often come with a price of being socially ostracized, are the domain of men, combined with the attitude that Joe American has about those who make their careers in maths and sciences - the “eggheads” that create distrust through their intelligence and ability to analyze problems and think critically, and how much of this is ineffective teaching methods, interference from nonscience trying to get themselves taught as science, and factors such a social promotion that only put the student further in the hole for the next years concepts? If the basic four-function stuff doesn’t make sense, algebra isn’t going to clear it up, and since the later echelons of maths and sciences are equations-and-problems solving, even if the logic makes sense, when it comes to calculations, things stall out and frustration appears."

The answer to your query is, in short, Yes.