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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get liberals out and have conservatives run the schools with the right to kick out kids who don't want or try to learn.

Put those kids in vocational school or boarding school.

Watch the results increase . The problem is liberalism ... Expensive and lousy results every time.[/quote]

I'm a liberal and I agree.

We are so elitist to think that anyone in a trade is a dumb ass.  I will never make as much as my father, yet I'm college educated THREE TIMES!

School isn't for everyone, and there will always be an underclass.  I think each kid needs a chance, but after seeing some fool in grade 9 get kicked up to grade 10 for barely passing and reading at a 6th grade level, he either needs intense remediation (which the county will not do) or he needs another outlet.

In the majority of cases, he'll drop out or end up in jail. And if the system DOES catch him in an alternative setting, graduation rates there are abysmal there.  Yes, there are successful alternative settings, but Mo Co doesn't have one in the stellar category!  [/quote]

[b]Wow
And you get to decide who these kids are ?
Who decides what kids get sent to vocational school ???[/b][/quote]

You mean like in Germany when 12 year olds take a test which sets them in a vocational or educational track for the rest of their state funded schooling?
Or the big high school test given in turkey, Greece, etc to dictate what career you get or is in demand?
Or maybe you'd like Manhattan's style where your kid must TEST IN to the best public schools. Lo and behold Stuy and Bronx science are vast majority Asian American.  [/quote]

It's a trade, which you snub - or unemployment or jail.

You're an idiot, by the way - and full fucking fledged elitist.

Thanks for putting down my family, btw - stonemasons/bricklayers and barbers.

good job![/quote]

dude, one poster flagrantly asked "Who decides who goes where" as if everyone and his mother should go to college or die.

Then the next poster matter of factly stated how Europe decides that very thing!   
Europe acknowledges that university is not for everyone, and white collar jobs at computers or sitting in a classroom for 4-8 more years is not for everyone, nor what the economy needs!  Apprenticeships, learning a trade well, and getting paid in a stable profession is a fantastic way to apply oneself and handled considerably better in other countries.  This should absolutely be on the radar of HS guidance counselors and parents in the U.S. [/quote]
I don't need you to speak for me, especially if you're going to get it wrong!!!!
I asked who gets to decide who goes where because even now in the present system, we have pushed people pushing folks in the wrong direction. I was asking for accountability, plans, and a strategy. I know good and well that college isn't for everyone nor is it necessary for everyone. I just also happen to know that because a child has a behavior issue doesn't mean he should be counted out as  if that automatically disqualifies him for college. I've seen too many kids who counselor a TRIED to discourage because the kid did not have a certain background or looked like what they thought was college material. It was not about a particular kids interests or desire, but the counselor a agenda. Ideally, we would have a educational system that can serve everyone equitably and that we are able to hire and pay qualified educators who are invested In identifying and guiding children in those things in which they can excel be it law school, construction, masonry or medicine.
It's just ass-holery to just throw out there that certain kids just need to be dumped in a vocational school is if 'I don't know what else to do with him make him go becplumbers or mechanics. As if those aren't necessary and dignified professions...just something to do that's not as valuable as getting a damn degree.[/quote]

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