“We are taking action to ensure all children, especially those facing barriers to success, have meaningful pathways to quality learning, graduation, access to post-secondary education and good-paying jobs.”
...Am I a bad person for saying that I think that line is COMPLETELY wrong?
We do not need to have 100% of our population graduating high school. Plenty of jobs don't need it. We do not need to have 100% of our population going to post-secondary, nearly NO jobs actually need it. We do not need 100% of our population having "good-paying jobs", in fact, if that were to happen, inflation would occur and EVERYONE would have shit-paying jobs.
Your average worker only needs to know how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Maybe a tiny bit of algebra. We already acknowledge pidgin and ghetto jive as official dialects of English, so it's not like language education matters fuck-all.
Tack a grade-9 onto public 1-8 education and have it be semi-specialized to general career paths, and you're pretty much golden.
Your average worker only needs to know how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Maybe a tiny bit of algebra.
Every person in the world would benefit from studying algebra to at least the college level, if only because that's where you move on from "remember these formulas", which is useful in passing a class, to "understand these concepts", which is useful in day-to-day life; there's a LOT of benefit to understanding that algebraic relationships can be applied to a wide variety of real-world concepts. Similarly, every person would benefit from a (DECENT) introductory trigonometry class; specifically, one that focused on conceptual uses rather then "OK guys, just memorize SOHCAHTOA for the test, yeah?", because being able to understand spatial relations is damned useful.
At the same time, I'd also strongly want people to have to take (again, decent) statistics classes, classes on taxes, all the stuff we used to call "home ec" (like cooking, housekeeping, laundry, etc), basic logic classes, and a number of other things that I'm sure many would call useless fluff classes (at least until they get out into the real world and suffer for the not knowing).
True, classes on logic, statistics, and "fluff classes" as you put it would be useful and helpful. But ultimately I think they could still be managed to be put into a more condensed curriculum. Certainly not something that needs to be delayed until post-secondary.
A lot of tech jobs are actually menial labor. Data entry needs only minimal on-the-job education, in example. You don't need to know math or philosophy to enter numbers in a spreadsheet.
No, if anything that's a very important part of modern civilization for the foreseeable future.
But i have a gut feeling average dude who fails to graduate high school wouldn't be so accepting.
You don't need to know math or philosophy to enter numbers in a spreadsheet.
That's the logic people used when they hired accountants down here in late 90s/early 00s. The outcome of it was a birth of a whole joke genre of accountant going into BSOD whenever 'entering numbers in a spreadsheet' gives unexpected outcome.
For one, Asians kick everyone asses at math.
And this part is evil bullshit:
...Am I a bad person for saying that I think that line is COMPLETELY wrong?
We do not need to have 100% of our population graduating high school. Plenty of jobs don't need it. We do not need to have 100% of our population going to post-secondary, nearly NO jobs actually need it. We do not need 100% of our population having "good-paying jobs", in fact, if that were to happen, inflation would occur and EVERYONE would have shit-paying jobs.
Your average worker only needs to know how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Maybe a tiny bit of algebra. We already acknowledge pidgin and ghetto jive as official dialects of English, so it's not like language education matters fuck-all.
Tack a grade-9 onto public 1-8 education and have it be semi-specialized to general career paths, and you're pretty much golden.
Every person in the world would benefit from studying algebra to at least the college level, if only because that's where you move on from "remember these formulas", which is useful in passing a class, to "understand these concepts", which is useful in day-to-day life; there's a LOT of benefit to understanding that algebraic relationships can be applied to a wide variety of real-world concepts. Similarly, every person would benefit from a (DECENT) introductory trigonometry class; specifically, one that focused on conceptual uses rather then "OK guys, just memorize SOHCAHTOA for the test, yeah?", because being able to understand spatial relations is damned useful.
At the same time, I'd also strongly want people to have to take (again, decent) statistics classes, classes on taxes, all the stuff we used to call "home ec" (like cooking, housekeeping, laundry, etc), basic logic classes, and a number of other things that I'm sure many would call useless fluff classes (at least until they get out into the real world and suffer for the not knowing).
True, classes on logic, statistics, and "fluff classes" as you put it would be useful and helpful. But ultimately I think they could still be managed to be put into a more condensed curriculum. Certainly not something that needs to be delayed until post-secondary.
No, but if you can't even graduate high school, what are you good for besides doing menial labor
in the fieldsIs there something wrong with menial labor?
A lot of tech jobs are actually menial labor. Data entry needs only minimal on-the-job education, in example. You don't need to know math or philosophy to enter numbers in a spreadsheet.
No, if anything that's a very important part of modern civilization for the foreseeable future.
But i have a gut feeling average dude who fails to graduate high school wouldn't be so accepting.
That's the logic people used when they hired accountants down here in late 90s/early 00s. The outcome of it was a birth of a whole joke genre of accountant going into BSOD whenever 'entering numbers in a spreadsheet' gives unexpected outcome.
Asians aren't minorities when school is in session. Duh!