>>The fact is that there was no golden age when everybody left school.............
The problem is that now we judge worth and value, as well as the success or not of the education system, by how many people pass exams and how many people go to university.
We adjust examination pass rates with both scoring and examination level, We ignore those people for whom classrooms and exams just don't work, despite their skills and values in many other areas, and we attempt to dampen, if not extinguish, their competitive edge.
So we end up with kids in a place they don't want to be, on a path they don't want to be on, with no drive to improve and don't value or acknowledge what they do want to do.
Ridiculous.
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