I think the age requirement that requires teens to remain in high school destroys many young men who have natural skills in trade or craft oriented professions.
I agree—and besides, the public school systems are dominated by female teachers and administrators and provide no role models for males except possibly in the sports area, which is meaningless to most boys as far as developing a trade or business goes. The system is hopelessly skewed against young men.
And that’s a good point. So many younger people should be directed to tech schools if they do not have the drive to find out facts. Many will still have the drive to learn how to do things - also extremely valuable to our society.
It is more or less now illegal to have young males in/on any job site, shop floor. So, forget about that.
It certainly doesn't accomplish anything except to keep the money the schools get for each student coming into the schools. The only thing wrong with that thought today is that our industry has been sent out of the country and the job opportunities that used to exist no longer do. We must get our education and our jobs back.
How the public school education system has damaged males, especially, for the past generation is beyond measure. That destruction has coincided with the middle-class expectation that every kid is going to go to college, prepared or not. There are then college diploma mills that pick up where the public schools left off. Hundreds of thousands of dollars later, you still have an undereducated mass.
I have one of those myself, it’s early yet, but I don’t see him going to college. Trade school or apprenticeship is going to be where he goes.