"Cindy Hamilton" wrote in message
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On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 1:28:10 PM UTC-4, %% wrote:
"Cindy Hamilton" wrote in message
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On Monday, August 10, 2020 at 8:57:06 PM UTC-4, %% wrote:

I like those who have enough of a clue to work
out whether the last couple of years of high
school will be any use to them and who choose
to leave school as soon they can legally, or even
before that and get on with their useful lives.

Isn't the last couple of years of high school the time when
they teach American Government (if they still teach that)?

No idea and I expect that varies around the country. And it
should be taught in the compulsory years of school anyway.

That could go a long way to explain why people
do so poorly when asked difficult questions like
"How many branches of government are there?"

Not something that I need in a useful employee.

No, but society needs citizens who aren't complete morons about
the structure and function of the government that they vote for.

Yes, but it's silly to be teaching that stuff in the last couple of years of
high school.

High school isn't job training.

That has always been a mindless line run by stupid
teachers. There is no other reason for teaching stuff
like calculus and algebra and spherical geometry etc.

College isn't job training.

And that in spades with medicine, nursing, engineering. IT, computing,
accounting, law etc etc etc.