I've been thinking on this for a long time, and it is clear to me that our education system stinks because there's no accountability....and I don't mean on the part of the teachers. The bigger question is when are the kids going to be held accountable?
I believe that taking the word "compulsory" out of the equation, and making that free schooling a privilege, an opportunity that one must work to keep would help to solve this problem.
Indeed, it would also free up a lots of uninterested kids to do the work we now think we need illegals to do.
Thinking about that, and they would, might actually motivate lots of them to work at education, work at learning, work at achieving something. Because if they didn't, they would get the boot.
As the satirical piece points out, young people are NOT slackers: they were responsible for the tech boom, there is no need for a draft, and unemployment is at record lows. It's making fun of Hillary's statement at the end
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners,
> contempt for authority; they allow disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children now are tyrants,not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when eleders enter the room. They contradict their parents,chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates
Every generation bad mouths the new one ....been goin on for centuries.