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Fight for public schools? Public schools are indoctrination centers where you graduate without any meaningful job skills. Why? So young people can't compete wit
by ahallock 14y ago
Fight for public schools? Public schools are indoctrination centers where you graduate without any meaningful job skills. Why? So young people can't compete with adults in the job market, and are then forced to go into massive debt for college. You aren't taught logic or philosophy, which would lead people to invalidate the State and public school system.
Education needs major disruption, which we're beginning to see from some startups, but why would anyone fight for the embarrassment called public education?
- rdouble 14y agoPublic schools are indoctrination centers where you graduate without any meaningful job skills. At my public high school you could take classes in small engines, CAD, graphic design, business bookkeeping and general accounting, computer programming, welding and so forth. There was even a class where students would build an entire house and then auction it off. As far as I remember, nearly every other high school in the area had similar programs.
- anigbrowl 14y agoTry to stay on topic. Not only are your comments rheotircal rather than evidence-based, they have nothing to do with the subject of this thread.
- ahallock 14y agotptacek was giving a reason for why he voted for Obama. I was arguing that it's a poor reason. It's a digression, I'll give you that.
- tptacek 14y agoI'm explaining why I voted for Obama, not why you should have. If you think we should outlaw corn chips, or annex Monaco, or subsidize free public sausage making classes, Obama wasn't your candidate. More power to you. The reason my comment was relevant to the thread was that it was asserted elsewhere that Obama supporters were intellectually inconsistent for doing so despite Obama's manifest refusal to dial back Homeland Security.