by Spider » Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:57 pm
As I said before, I think they need to be moved into vocational training, rather than high school academics. The only people who need that stuff are people who are planning on continuing on to college. The people who don't end up in college rarely make use of it in any case.
I'm not suggesting dumping the chaff out on the sidewalk, I'm suggesting removing them from the situation where they can impede the academic learning of others. Use the funding that would have been wasted on failing to teach them geography and history and give them some applied skills instead.
Perhaps they'll willfully fail even at that. As was already mentioned, you can't make the horse drink. If the horse is particularly idiotic and wants to dehydrate, well, that's life. Hell with it.
What we need is to elevate the HS diploma back up to something that is earned, and is the fundamental building block of a successful life. The reason past generations succeeded in school was because the alternative was very unpleasant, and shameful. Now its as though life is a big soccer league and even the losers get a trophy.
f**k that. The losers need to lose, and publicly, so that those coming up can learn from their crap example and be motivated to achieve, by their parents, their community, and for their own sake.