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School should be K-8 and make 9-12 higher learning.
I personally would prefer K-8 be all general knowledge stuff (like a practical level of math and science) which will then transition into an apprenticeship program to fill in the rest. Can you imagine if you had started to learn you career when you were 12 or 13? It would be like you got a 10 year head start on your career.
The vast majority of stuff I learned in high school was an elective or something that should have been an elective such as marine biology or a foreign language. The other stuff was tainted by being taught by liberal teachers so the books I read for literature and history did not actually provide good examples of literature or a useful grasp of history. Fortunately I always loved reading and was fascinated by history so I pursued these things independently, but had I not I would have read true classics or have learned history that was correct and meaningful to understand current events.
Yes I would have transferred to a trade school if it had lacked the stigma and also kids who for kicked out of regular school were enrolled in trade schools as a last resort so they had an even higher population of future felons than my school.
Yeah half of the reason the US is so fucked right now is because they pushed everyone into college which just in turn further brainwashed people to believe only what authority figures told them and to further reinforce that learning is a chore. Learning is, and should always be considered something you do for yourself to just be better than you were the day before and to always keep striving towards self improvement.
It would be cool if they added classes on top of that to explain concepts like retirement programs, health insurance, 401Ks, various tax forms, how to write a proper resume, applying for loans, how to make it in the job world, explaining what terms like "liquidity of assets", "next of kin" and all of this other jargon mean.
Would be cool if my kid doesn't have to curse under his breath at 18 because his retail job NEEDS to know the monetary value of all of his liquidable assets, and he can't figure out what the hell that even means.
The primary function of school should be to prepare you for adulthood. The school system has failed us, telling us college or poor are the only two choices, and we all should go to college because we're smart, or do a trade because we're not the best academically. Real life doesn't involve calculating the quadratic equation, or remembering which country we bought Louisiana from, or using words like quixotic, idiosyncratic, or pedantic. And things high school students learn are useless and teach them that learning is the equivalent of unpaid work, and to be thankful they have the opportunity to solve for X without paying.
No, I think they'd be more thankful knowing how to apply for a job and make a proper resume, and how to kickstart their careers and network, for example how to find networking events within their careers, and where to look. But no, that's a chat for an anxious high school student and a guidance counselor two times per year.
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