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 Originally Posted by Galapogos
I've never understood that logic. If you allow a kid forward if they failed the previous grade it only gets harder for them to pass that next grade. Then they pass it anyway and move on to a another grade that's even harder than the last one then they fail that too. If that goes on long enough you end up with a Youtube commenter by the time they're done high school.
The irony is that the public system, by natural structure, benefits the most well-off and hurts the least well-off. This is because it's both an entitlement yet not entirely treated like an entitlement. What this means is that the exclusionary principles of private education (which are good) are subsidized, which makes that entitlement of exclusive club membership more accessible to those who perform better and thus need the subsidy less
Because the entire system functions like this, we see huge and weird employment problems like employers only hiring people with bachelors degrees. The state props up the exclusionary principle, which props up the handful of people who can achieve exclusionary status, and makes everybody else worse off
People bitch about how shitty the job market is and few realize that the primary culprit is state subsidized education. In fact, we have it so backwards that we think the solution to the shitty job market is more subsidization, but that will do nothing for us other than prop up the most capable among us and punish everybody else
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