....which goes back to a point I made earlier about 'the cult of the child.' It is up to the adults in a child's life to guide them into a broad based education because we know as adults that we never know what we might need. And maybe...just maybe... the adults know what they are doing when they expect a 14 year old to learn algebra.
This thrust of the article wasn't about the “adults” it was about the **government**.
**Government** does **not** know better than the parents whether a particular child need algebra or not!
**Government** does **not** know better than the parents whether an individual child needs for more years of incarceration, confined behind a narrow desk, in the bowels of a prison-like government institution!
Begin the process of privatizing the government schools. Let parents, teachers, and principals decide these issues **privately** without the threat of government force.
Oh...And...Please remember that government force **means** police action ( with real guns with real bullets on the hips.)