At age 13, most teenagers should enter into apprenticeships. The top 10% could go on to high school, which exists explicitly as college prep.

High school does not seem to improve most kids’ performance — but almost anyone discussing this was in that top 10 percent and did learn through high school.

True. The point here is that kids get this organically; school does little to expand upon this. You can put 25 yr olds in a room with professional educators, and the educators can’t pick out the college grads from the grade school drop outs.

”The main problem is that we are bringing in some 2 million illegal refugees each year, none of whom has any education relevant to our society, and almost all of whom are openly hostile to our system.”

Truer words never spoken.

If that were not true, the whole economy and governmental system would collapsed long ago. So the mere fact the article was written, published, and read proves it is nonsense.

The main problem is that we are bringing in some 2 million illegal refugees each year, none of whom has any education relevant to our society, and almost all of whom are openly hostile to our system.

Oh gawd; usual stuff we get from Ed Establishment: systemic change blah blah blah; so much jargon you need a chainsaw; ten cents of value delivered by a hundred dollars of effort.

Can’t even fill us in on their acronyms. I’ll assume MAP stands for Madly Advocating Persecution ; NWEA stands for New World Evildoers Association.

There’s more to life than books and paper tests, but school has little or nothing to do with learning, other than wasting prime learning years.

We’ve been trained to believe that if we are nice to people, they will be nice to us. Ignores the base conflict and adversity inherent in life; especially between various groupings: men/women; ethnicities; races.

Thus, we’re told if we are nice to women and give them stuff, things will work out. If we are nice to Palestinians, they will join us around the campfire, smoking the crackpipe. Ditto for Jews. If we quit being mean to George Floyd, all colors will bleed into one.

Can’t seem to convey to people that this stuff doesn’t matter; there will always be a pretext for violence. If not a George Floyd, a Freddy Gray. If not Freddy Gray, then we have to atone at maximum expense for not treating Sojourner Truth properly. If not Sojourner Truth, then the various tribesmen circa 1619. Etc. etc.

Now meditate on the unfathomably sorry fate of the 99.9th-percentile second-grader.

Raze every public school and salt the earth that nothing may grow.