Education in our modern knowledge based meritocratic society is LITERALLY a matter of life or death. An entire person's future is decided at age 12. Get sent to

Education in our modern knowledge based meritocratic society is LITERALLY a matter of life or death. An entire person's future is decided at age 12. Get sent to the wrong high school and it has impact on your life expectancy FFS. And yet teachers are chronically underpaid and underappreciated.