Quote:I think school is the perfect place to be prepared for the world outside of your parents wings. Especially high school.

 

Not really.  Public school didn't teach me about saving and investing.  Public school didn't teach me anything about dealing with and/or working with different races of people.  Schools today are teaching that "everybody's a winner and there are no losers".  That's not true in the real world.

 

Actual fact and I'll probably get blasted for this:  I never really had to deal with black people while I was in school.  It wasn't until I joined the military that I was exposed to a black person from a large city.  Needless to say it was "awkward" to say the least.  I had also never dealt with someone white raised in the south as a bigot.  I was forced to confront both when I entered military service and you know what?  All of us learned to work together.

 

My point is that the world is a big place full of a diverse number and kind of people.  The job of the education system is not to teach "social skills", it's to teach basic skills.  That job is NOT a requirement of the U.S. Government.

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