[Vision2020] School System

[DonaldH675 at aol.com]

I would agree that we need as much diversity of choice in our educational  
system as possible with a couple of caveats.
First, the science, math, and English requirements must be kept high. It is  
virtually impossible to survive in today's society without a good founding in  
all three areas, whether your goals are arts, fine arts, social studies,  
mathematics, hard science, engineering or any of the combinant offshoots that  
are showing up. 
Second, we need a hard counter to the increasingly mystical, irrational and  
illogical bent that our country is taking. History shows that societies which  
vary far from the pragmatic are doomed to failure. Dogmatism cannot survive  
against knowledge for very long because reality always intrudes.
 
With those bedrock requirements set I am in favor of as much variety as  
possible. But when we start talking about letting folks avoid the basics we are  
limiting their future choices and if they change their minds later about what  
they want to do (as many will) we will have done them a disservice that may 
not  be correctable. Remember, college graduates out earn all others by a very  
substantial margin, thousands and thousands of dollars.
 
 
 
Don Huskey

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at  you, then they fight you, then 
you win." Mahatma  Gandhi
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