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Let's ask a more legitimate question, without the fancy and highly specific "MIT" modifier, and without shifting to highly optional education (I have a college

by saurik 6y ago

Let's ask a more legitimate question, without the fancy and highly specific "MIT" modifier, and without shifting to highly optional education (I have a college degree, I went to grad school, I continue to live next to and participate in an academic university ecosystem... I can easily sympathize with how useless the whole thing is): "how many people would prefer to have a high school education without a high school diploma over having a high school diploma without a high school education?" <- the answer to this one is probably "almost everyone".

perl4ever 6y ago
That seems ambiguous and non-obvious to me. A very underdetermined question. Without the diploma, are you locked out of any job that requires it? Are you assuming that a GED is available? Do you realize some jobs that pay incrementally more than minimum wage in fact require you to prove you graduated high school even if it was, like 30 years ago and you've been in the workforce since? Conversely, does "without a high school education" mean never having gone to high school classes, or does it mean being completely ignorant of everything those classes would have taught?