Originally Posted By: Thuryl
Originally Posted By: Excalibur
I learn because I choose to learn, and most of my learning happens outside of the classroom. Why should we keep forcing people to go to school if they don't want to learn to begin with?
Because most of us are not okay with letting people grow up to be unemployable?
I don't think it makes sense to not attend school either, but I think that's my choice to make and not other people's.
Originally Posted By: Slarty
2) One size fits all educational standards make sense in younger grades, but by the time you get to high school, they're ridiculous. Practically all of Europe splits teenagers up depending on whether their inclinations are more academic, or more towards technical or trade studies.
Belgium, for example, lacks our system in which students are assigned to public schools based on where they live. We end up having schools whose students are mostly poor, or mostly upper-class, etc. Letting parents decide what public school their child attends forces schools to compete for students (and funding, consequently).