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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In order for a European model to work here, we would need federal not local control of schools and their standards, beginning at kindergarten.  That will not happen in the US - our model is too States-centric for that.   In Europe, national not local standards prevail.  It’s akin to the social compact in many European countries regarding pensions and health care - they “work” (although Americans who are used to private health insurance would possibly not like the standards of care) because certain truisms are at play: everyone is employed, and works until age 65. You have to start at the ground up, not layer on top.  [/quote]

[b]You cannot just lump all of Europe together.  Each has its own different way of doing things.  Yes in education just like in health insurance.  It just leads to statements that are wrong and misleading.

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But still the European model spits out kids into trade schools at elementary school,, middle school, and high school.  They go into viable trades and learn lucrative livings.  Only the elite are left for Oxbirdge, U of Dublin, etc.  I don't think our system of pushing ill-prepared, depressed and unhappy kids into expensive SLACs is in any ways superior.[/quote]

Those countries have standardized education at the national level. Nobody is learning how to count with their fingers in 9th grade because they live on the wrong side of the tracks there.[/quote]

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