Hi Feif Un.
You make a great point!
I see attitudes, sadly, so prevalent, that limud chol may as well be called limud treif. The hypocrisy of this is that if someone is a wealthy, successful professional, in the very same community, they get tremendous kavod.
This lack of standardized secular education is nonsense, dangerous, and has crippled many of the finest minds among our youth. I see this first hand year after year after year.