Some districts do separate the better students and place them in better schools. The problem is, with a school system based on the socialist model, other students with potential do become lost, stuck behind in the worse schools, as sometimes admission into the better schools comes down to pulling strings and the luck of the draw.
Privatizing education would put it all back into the hands of the parents. Then, if private companies wanted to recruit promising young students to work for them, they could offer scholarships or run their own schools to educate them. Competition would offer so many more options.
From what I've heard, from that class by now one could find maybe a dozen professors in major European universities, and a couple teaching in the Ivy league here.
Great. They're probably the ones spouting all the Leftist ideas. ;-)
Privatizing education would put it all back into the hands of the parents. Then, if private companies wanted to recruit promising young students to work for them,
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At 15, my son moved from the community college to a local college. In the first semester, the college held a job fair. A local bank offered my son ( then 15) a **serious** job offer for a management position. He refused, and jokingly told the recruiter, "My mom would have to drive me!"
At 15, he could have DONE that job, and performed well!
In the past youth of that age did take on responsibilities of great magnitude. I am reminded of the young teen officer in the movie staring Robert Crowe, "Master and Commander". The fictional young man in that movie was essentially being "homeschooled" by the captain, the captain's friend, and the other members of the crew.