Talk about becomming Americanized....
Higher education is not for everyone. It takes brains and effort to succeed at elite schools (and to a lesser extent money). This is the bell curve in action. We deny reality at our own cost. There is plenty of room in the world for people with trades and skills, not just academic credentials. Here in the US, you USED to be able to get vocational training in high school. Personally, I learned how to weld, work sheet metal, survey, drive heavy equipment and work with wood, and still managed to finish college prep and get into the University of California. Those skills allowed me to work in the oil fields and help my widowed mother pay for my college expenses. We need more vocational education in a big way. There are two problems with this. These programs aren’t cheap, and you have to hire qualified instructors (usually conservative men). The educrats have a hard time with those kind of employees. The money would have to come from other, less economically useful, but politically correct programs.
Reminds me of that movie Accepted. “You better have hobo stab insurance!”
Holy crap. Can we trade our teachers' association for theirs?
So conditions haven't changed at British boarding schools in all these years since I defected to the West?