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Primary education is to expose you to learning opportunities that allow you to know what in the world you not only can excel at, but what your aptitudes are or could be in the future of your educational experience...

Many kids enjoy the Arts, Sports, or leadership roles but are excellent at mathematics...a formal education helps to encourage and direct these students, with excellence in various academic disciplines, to have that opportunity...and if they have not the means provide the required aid...

Algebra is needed to understand clear reasoning and logical procedures...I can tell you that the kids who have not been exposed to the challenge of math will never know what their potential is...and those that are and are left puzzled, have at least learned what they do not want to do... For America...the sciences are the future for all of all of us either as a consumer or a producer...knowing what is best for us as individuals is why we have such a diverse curriculum up to our Sophomore year in College when we chose our Major Course of studies...

if you chose not to go to college, you have learned the lesson earlier what you can or wish to do...not all of us are best served with college...we all can make the most of the God given talents to be excellent in what ever we chose to do...

However without the exposure to explore what your Gifts are you are not being served well by our educational systems! no Jokes about the poor or bad schools...

In my opinion liberals do our kids a huge disservice by making it seem to kids that if they do not go to college, that they are academic failures, and therefore not as good as others who are??? All work is important or it would not be a job...work must be celebrated, and the Blue Collar is just as important to our healthy lives as other jobs...

In my opinion liberals do our kids a huge disservice by making it seem to kids that if they do not go to college, that they are academic failures, and therefore not as good as others who are???

In fairness, I see that particular flaw more often in conservatives than I see it in liberals. I can only speak for the liberals I know personally, but as a whole, they're least likely to look down on someone else because of their income or education than the conservatives I know. It's one of the many failings I see amongst the conservatives around me.