Comment The Main Point of School is Warehousing Kids (Score 1) 570
The post is interesting but I think he misses to point of modern public education.
Daycare for kids while adults work.
I know that statement may seem insulting to the field of primary and secondary education
but it becomes clear when, kids are unable to attend school, that parents are normally more concerned
with the lack of available warehousing than the lack of education.
If there were no question in parents minds about the importance of learning, the
public education budget(s) for primary and secondary education would have doubled until the system
was actually functional (much like military spending).
As is most public schools limp along and scrape money together from all and sundry.
I once heard someone quote a study regarding adding more money to the school system
not showing any improvement. My observation was that if you say you're doubling the rice
you give to the starving it sounds magnanimous, but if you're only giving each starving person
a resulting 2 grains of rice they are still going to starve.
If education were about teaching or learning, 25 percent of GDP would be spent on that.