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TRUTH OF ALL TRUTHS: it's a waste of time and money trying to educate the bottom 50% of American kids.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 965407:MV8xMDYwMzc4XzE2ODM1NDg3X0MzNjNFQjYw] [quote:Anonymous Coward 924922] The UC system, the worlds finest public university, is SWAMPED with qualified applicants and this year was turning away tens of thousands of kids that were scoring over 1800 on their SATs and carrying 4.0 GPAs. All you need to do is provide a good education for the top 20% and you'll have more than enough people to fill all the available knowledge jobs... engineering, science, medicine, etc. Another 30% should receive vocational training for skilled labor/trade positions. Around 8th grade is when the kids should be tested and placed on the appropriate tracks, those who don't qualify for additional education or vocational training should be turned loose to compete for minimum wage/manual labor positions. Anyone who disagrees with this is clearly from the bottom 50%. [/quote] From a centralized planning standpoint, this is correct. However, since the US started providing free public education in the 1800s, it has been a tenet of US culture that all children deserve a chance to be educated toward the career of their choice. And indeed, there are examples of people diagnosed as retarded, severely learning disabled, etc. who have gone on to earn advanced degrees. (Actually, Einstein was labeled retarded in elementary school, but that was in Europe.) So the US does what it believes is correct and not necessarily the most efficient. [/quote]
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The UC system, the worlds finest public university, is SWAMPED with qualified applicants and this year was turning away tens of thousands of kids that were scoring over 1800 on their SATs and carrying 4.0 GPAs.
All you need to do is provide a good education for the top 20% and you'll have more than enough people to fill all the available knowledge jobs... engineering, science, medicine, etc. Another 30% should receive vocational training for skilled labor/trade positions.
Around 8th grade is when the kids should be tested and placed on the appropriate tracks, those who don't qualify for additional education or vocational training should be turned loose to compete for minimum wage/manual labor positions.
Anyone who disagrees with this is clearly from the bottom 50%.
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