I have long suggested that the single most effective thing this country could do to improve education would be to eliminate this silly idea of compulsory education.
Any @sshole who doesn't want to be in a classroom -- or whose parents don't want them to be in a classroom -- gets the hell out of school and stops wasting everyone else's time and money.
It's not about learning here it's about who else will provide babysitting services for these charges other than the teacher and the taxpayer. The kids haven't experienced any supervision ... ever.
After school, it's about having more tax-sponsored activities to extend the nanny state into the evening hours.
And the closest school here (I forget, something like 4th through 6th grades) is 99% "Hispanic," with 75+% being ESL learners, and 100% are free lunch eligible.
This same school recently put up modular buildings on one of the soccer fields and I am told these buildings are classrooms for the parents of the students.
Many, many thanks to the author! I'm forwarding to my out-of-touch, disbelieving, and in deep denial groups!
Pretty simplistic and ridiculous, I was the jock goofball drunk above average student. If you told me I could just not go to school, I would have left. I would have had more time to work on my street rods, but I would be a far less productive member of society. The education I got in an upper class suburban Boston atmosphere has done me well. I was always an avid reader, but I generally disdained formal education. What I needed for the future was forced upon me, and that was not a bad thing in retrospect.How much disipline would a child tearn if it was not forced upon them? My brothers and sisters were brought up in a strict household, I came later and was let to do as I pleased after about 16 yrs old. It is not a wonder that my older siblings got over their adolesence by the time they graduated college. I got over mine around 30 yrs old. Kids, like puppies need to be coerced into the right way of living.
Pretty simplistic and ridiculous, I was the jock goofball drunk above average student. If you told me I could just not go to school, I would have left. I would have had more time to work on my street rods, but I would be a far less productive member of society. The education I got in an upper class suburban Boston atmosphere has done me well. I was always an avid reader, but I generally disdained formal education. What I needed for the future was forced upon me, and that was not a bad thing in retrospect.How much disipline would a child tearn if it was not forced upon them? My brothers and sisters were brought up in a strict household, I came later and was let to do as I pleased after about 16 yrs old. It is not a wonder that my older siblings got over their adolesence by the time they graduated college. I got over mine around 30 yrs old. Kids, like puppies need to be coerced into the right way of living.