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Children should be educated to the degree that they're are willing to be educated. Which is the rub: far, far too many students don't want to put forward the effort to be educated - and if they're not willing to be educated, their capabilities are irrelevant.

[PapaBear3625]

Children should be educated to the degree that they're are willing to be educated. Which is the rub: far, far too many students don't want to put forward the effort to be educated - and if they're not willing to be educated, their capabilities are irrelevant.

That famous 8th-grade test from a hundred years ago was not for graduating from 8th grade, but to enter high school. If you didn't demonstrate on the test that you would benefit from a high school education, then you didn't go.

Similarly, it used to be that if your test results and grades were not good enough for college, you just didn't go. Most people didn't go to college.