In the first place, kids are **deliberately** given a crappy government education.
To be useful in the workplace they need to **waste** 4 years in high school **and**, in addition they need go to college just to get enough education to be able to do a job that my parents ( 95 years old) could have done with an eight grade education.
If they could receive a decent education to the 8th grade, most should be learning a real trade or be working and NOT be going to high school and especially not college. They could then be moving on to real work, establishing real relationships, marrying, and having kids.
My grandmother married at the age of 17. My great grandmother married at 15. For her wedding she was given her first pair of real shoes. Thornton Wilder wrote the play “Our Town”. The young people in this play married immediately after high school.
Second, follow the money!
The money will lead directly to a lot of government schools employees, and those in the entertainment and retail businesses who make a lot of money on keeping kids a infantile as possible for as **long** as possible!
By the way, my kids were homeschooled. All 3 were finished Calculus III and all general college requirements by the age of 15.
The oldest then went to night school to study accounting. At 15 he went to his college's job fair. He was given a **serious** offer for a beginning management job by a local bank. Guess what? He could have done that job, at age 15 and done **well**.
My son didn't take that job, because he was legally too young to have a full-time job, and he wanted to finish his accounting degree. Also, he is a highly ranked athlete in his sport. A job would not have allowed him time to train.
I would not want my daughter to marry at 15. While she is responsible and a honor student she is not mature enough to run a house. My goodness, I can’t fathom it. It would be pizza and Twinkies for dinner every night. Miley Cyrus and Jonas Brothers all day at her house.
Yeah I’d want a Doctor,Lawyer or a Chemist to not have to gone to college too.
Your great grandmother married at 15. Big deal. People also lived to 50 on average back then. The rest of your point seemed more like a brag session. I’m happy for your son, but there isn’t nothing wrong with enjoying life a bit before getting the accounting degree. There’s plenty of time to work later in life and an accounting job (or any for that matter), isn’t the end-all be-all in life.
If your son had been in public school, he’d be slowed down so that he wouldn’t get ahead of the slowest in the class. Being bored, he would start looking at the girls’ tattoos, LOL!
wintertime, you've recently posted that you are helping your children financially with your grandchildren's schooling and other expenses - most people would consider that 'infantilizing' your children instead of letting them support their own children, and think it is an example of just the sort of thing this article is complaining about.
Now I know that many (most?) people who can afford to do so, and some who can't, enjoy spending money on their grandchildren, but the implication in your post was that helping to educate your grandchildren was almost akin to charity. To my mind, charity would be helping a deserving poor child, while letting your highly successfuly children raise (and support!) their own children.