re: Smug PhD gets put in her place

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We turned our focus on the lowest of learners. Everyone else suffers.

Its time to admit about half the people in this country really are wasting a 9th -12th grade education, and were wasting resources on them.

Public schools are a job creator for adults and day care/day prision for kids. For most of our history, the best of the best have set the standards in the USA, now its the lowest of the low.

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I should say that I don't mind accommodating students who are simply below average intelligence.

When I say standards, I'm mainly talking about standards of behavior and effort.

I think there's a place for students who are not destined to excel in an academic setting and would do better with more practical instruction. Auto repair, woodworking, electrical, welding, plumbing, hairdressing, etc.

So I would not object to students tracking 9th-12th grades through a curriculum like that instead of the curriculum I posted about above. That would increase the cost of education because those pursuits would have to be at least half hands-on, but perhaps we could divert some money currently being spent on junior college programs and replace most if not all of those programs with a really good high school curriculum.

That's the thing. High school used to be considered adequate to prepare an average citizen for the workforce and life in America. Now it's worth very little (because it teaches so little) in the minds of potential employers.

It shouldn't replace traditional college majors like engineering or nursing, but it should be able to prepare a student for a career in welding or several other blue collar trades.