>>10669771The primary point of school is economic.
It is designed to be a baby sitting program so both parents can work full time, doubling the work force (vs one parent working). Any other consideration is secondary in our system.
The new generation of ruling classes comes from private high schools that cost $30,000 or more a year to attend.
Public high schools in the United States are under immense pressure to keep ALL students till they are at least 18 to fulfill the primary goal stated above. This means violent students are intermixed with normals in the halls, draining resources on security and stressing everyone else out because you might have to walk by everyday someone who beat someone to a plup on a lunch table two years ago. Only the most continuously violent get sent to "continuation school" which is just a separate highschool for violents, which also costs tons of money that could be spend on other students.
The dumb students are given alternative b.s. math classes for credit such as "business math" to keep them in school till they are 18 and get them a degree.
The smart students in public highschool are trained to be the next generation of servants. They are taught just enough to know how to file taxes, and maybe fill out lab reports and use a x-ray machine (but not how to build the machine).