Andylusion
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So are kids who don't pass entrance exams destined for a life making a crap wage of 25 or even 30 dollars an hour for life? That's telling them the dream is gone. Can they take the exam more than once? Will students be told what concepts, not questions, but what concepts are on the test so they can prepare? What are the other options for those who fail the entrance exam?
Well yes and no.
First, you are implying as if somehow it is different now.
It is not different now. The only difference is, I would be making the high schools more effective, and restore value to a high school diploma.
Right now, kids get through high school, have a diploma, and are still not qualified for anything but crappy low wage, garbage jobs.
The reason why, is because they were sent through public schools, without being educated.
Most high schools today are turning out diplomas that are worth less than toilet paper. And I know you think I'm exaggerating, but I have had to deal with people who had high school educations, and couldn't work a calculator effectively. And I mean a calculator. I'm not making this up.
So what I am proposing, isn't changing anything for the students who already will not learn. Those students, that would not be able to get into high school, are students that already come out of school unable to get a decent job.
Nothing would be different, except I would be restoring the value of a diploma.
To kind of validate my claim, when I was with a company that ran a warehouse, they were requiring that new employees, take a basic reading and math test. By basic, I mean 5 times 8. And word math problems, like "If you have six pallets with 46 units each, and the manager says ship 5 of them, how many did you ship?"
Why did they do this? Because people were showing up with high school diplomas, and were unable to do basic math, or understand simple directions.
So with that in mind, all I'm doing is preventing the absolute waste of millions of dollars on students that are not going to learn anyway.
And I'm allowing more students to get a quality education. Because problem students do not magically become good students, when they are around good students. Instead good student turn into problem students, when they are around problem students.
Again, this is why Japan, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, most of the world operates this way. Kids that don't make the grades, are removed.
So what can we do with those kids? Well first off, there will be far fewer of them to begin with.
When kids learn they can't go to high school with their friends, unless they pass the test, they tend to study for the test.
But obviously there will be some that will not keep up no matter what. What do we do with them?
Well there were three basic options.
1. Have trade schools that teach pipe fitting, welding, electrician, carpentry, brick laying, construction, and so on.
2. Have special high schools specifically for under achievers. If I remember right, Finland has this. If you fail out, unable to get into any quality high school, and don't want to go to a trade school, you can go to these under achiever schools (My name for it), where you are put into bare minimum requirement educational system.
Now just to point out the obvious, students that get diplomas from those high schools, tend to get lower paying jobs, because the diploma is obviously, a lower level of education.
And lastly the military, or you are on your own.
I think that's fair all the way around. The students that are doing their best, are not hampered and hindered by boat anchor students that will never learn anyway.
And at the same time, all the problem students are given more than enough chances to make something of themselves.
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