> By what criteria does it not work? Rates of literacy would be one. To be clear, what I'm saying is that public high school were made because parents couldn't

> By what criteria does it not work? Rates of literacy would be one. To be clear, what I'm saying is that public high school were made because parents couldn't/wouldn't/didn't agree and support and provide resources for their kids to go to school. If you want to build an alternative to public high school, you can't make it depend on parents having the money or will. > Other countries are setup differently than the USA. They have infrastructure for transporting children for example, infrastructure we do not necessarily have. Yeah, the lack of public transportation (or if it exists it can be very unsafe) in the USA is a big problem, but for people living in the city everything can be in walking distance. > This is not true. You can be bullied at work. You could argue that you can switch jobs, but you can also switch schools. Bullying at work is different than bullying at school. At school, adults tell you to learn to take it and stop reacting. At work, it's called harassment and the bully can be brought to justice. Also, I, as an adult, can switch jobs. I, as a child, had to depend on my parents to switch school. I wasn't the one that made the final decision. > You can argue you can tell your manager, but you can also tell your teacher. In the end it's the same thing. I can tell my manager, HR, contact the "anti harassment task force" or a lawyer. Most people are also more sensible about workplace harssment than bullying. Sure, maybe that's because I'm in a good company that has these resources, but considering how big bullying is, it's ridiculous that there isn't more resources at public schools (the first one being a viable alternative).