re: #195 freetoken

Well, in that particular case I tried to highlight that the proponent of cutting 12th grade was also a creationist, racist, homophobe who is trying to implement his own version of theocracy in Utah.

OTOH, I’m not sure a full 12 years is necessary. In my parents’ day (the Great Depression), it was rare to finish the full 12 years. My mother never finished HS (but later in life got her GED), yet she was (still is) much more literate than what I see in today’s HS students/ college students. My father never went past 8th grade, yet could do trig in his head.

We have to face an unpleasant truth, one exploited greatly by the racists and other throwbacks (and thus we must be wary of whose fleet in which we might find ourselves rowing…) … Namely this: public education has become a big experiment in social engineering, rather than a means of developing intellectual prowess or skill proficiency.

So let’s scrap it and not improve it? Unless you see improving it as not worth it. I don’t. Neither can you compare what is needed in today’s world academically with that of our grandparents, or even parents.