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> This isn't the 50s anymore, you can't build the economy on folks with a high school degree who get a union job at a factory for 30 years. Or perhaps high sc
by inetknght 7y ago
> This isn't the 50s anymore, you can't build the economy on folks with a high school degree who get a union job at a factory for 30 years.
Or perhaps high school should be teaching more advanced subjects. Compare US high school against the equivalent education level in Europe for example
- DebtDeflation 7y agoThe problem is that in the US we lump together multiple types of high school diplomas. In most school districts, you can specify either: 1) a College Prep track in which case you will take Algebra/Geometry/Trigonometry/Calculus, Biology/Chemistry/Physics, World and American History, English Literature, etc. or 2) a General Ed track where you will take arithmetic, science, social studies, basically 4 more years of middle school. Both sets of students get the same diploma. In other countries you have things like A Levels to differentiate the high school diploma holders who took hard classes vs those that took dum-dum classes. Without that, you end up with an information asymmetry like the market for used cars.