• eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site
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    “I personally prefer the united states become an uneducated backwater because I didn’t like public school”

    I simplified it for you.

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      Stop strawmanning what I said, it’s not a discussion or argument- it’s just insulting. And, no, saying people shouldn’t be forced to do unpaid labor for 13 years of their lives forced to sit in desks when their body is built to move and learning things that honestly are not, and will not be useful for the vast majority of them. If it were about basic knowledge there would just be one test and when you pass it you don’t have to go to school anymore. But it’s not.

      I’m not saying people shouldn’t have the choice, I do support the choice. I just don’t support false imprisonment

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        Wow, you’re actually insane.

        Edit: also it sounds to me like you straight up don’t understand the point of education.

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          What do I misunderstand about the point of education? Also you’re just insulting again.

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            I was going to give you a real answer but I took a little trip through your history and I think I understand what you’re saying now, this conversation is over.

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                  Well I am slightly of two minds about it. Looking in their post history it looks like they posted a selfie and appeared to be quite young. I think kids are allowed to be ignorant and wrong for a little while. Oftentimes they’re little more than blank slates parroting what their parents or relatives indoctrinated them into. Only actually learning what things really are once they start becoming more independent and experiencing for themselves. I have some hope that this one with some experience and maturity might come to learn. But I definitely don’t blame people for not watching to be free life coaches to the unwilling. But yes when they’re over 30 and still acting like that usually then there’s little hope for them.

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                    well I’m glad some people still try. either way, I just discovered this kid mods this community, so i’m out. I didn’t leave reddit to go to another politics community run by people who support traitors.

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        one test and when you pass it you don’t have to go to school anymore.

        In America it’s called the GED. I know this because a friend of mine took it at 15 and started community college immediately.

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          In my state you still have to be enrolled in some form of education until you are 18. My dad did the same.

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        Cool, have fun trying to compete economically with China and Europe with optional education in math and science. Your idea sounds nice in theory, but it’s completely divorced from reality.

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          I’m not a nationalist. I don’t see a need to compete economically on a national level. International markets aren’t zero sum.