About 35% of adolescents between ages 13-22 are simply not suitable for traditional classroom type education. Its pointless trying to get them meaningless high school diplomas and promote the fiction that they learned anything.
The principal of a nearby high school told me that anytime there is fight on campus, he knows he cannot suspend or expel students without a great deal of difficulty including mountains of paperwork justifying the decision along with endless meetings with district officials and hostile parents.
So instead, he put the students on home studies immediately.
Said he’d had no pushback from parents after he’d told them the alternatives.
> About 35% of adolescents between ages 13-22 are simply not suitable for traditional classroom type education. <
I taught in urban public schools for thirty years, and I certainly agree with that statement. And at one time those students were placed in vocational education classes, where they could learn a useful trade.
Then George W. Bush came along. His idiotic ‘No Child Left Behind’ program destroyed the trade classes. Now those kids are in advanced math and English classes instead. Those are classes those kids neither want nor need.
George W. Bush - one of the worst presidents, ever.