03-07-2016, 10:47 AM
(03-07-2016, 10:20 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: So you think the gov needs to be involved in education?
I think we need to have a minimum, unified standard. If they want to exceed the standard, great. Let's use high school graduation as an example. If there are 10,000 high schools, there shouldn't be 10,000 different prerequisites to graduate. If the schools could establish the basic standard among themselves and they had organizational oversight with the authority to enforce the basic standard then the government wouldn't need to get involved.
You made the point the Native Americans were defeated because they were a bunch of tribes which didn't cooperate and were at war with each other. The US is competing in a global market place and for the most part, their work force is the product of our educational system. If each of those 10,000 high schools represents an individual tribe which aren't cooperating, doing their own thing, each with different standards, then it becomes more difficult for the US to compete in a global market.
