Re: Time to write off public education?
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I've thought for a while that school as we have it in the US is a huge waste. College is a 4 year vacation that makes a 40+ hour work week all the more depressing when you transition. Better off for society if we just learn what we need to learn and start earning 3 years earlier. I know you were talking about high school, but the same principles apply.
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Who gets to determine what's "good for society" and "what we need to learn"? Should there be a bureau of indoctrination that determines what jobs everyone will be assigned then prescribes a slate of instruction to maximize performance of that one narrow task?
Narrowly-focused people are less fundamentally useful than broad-based people.
Broad based education makes for more adaptable people.
If *you* don't like college, or think it's a waste, then don't go - nobody is forced to, last time I checked.
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