News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:“If you get a C or lower, I’ll buy you a present” by supahfly_remix on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @07:12AM (#12733416)
> it's a system quite literally built to produce compliant workers for factories during the industrial revolution: https://youtu.be/sXpbONjV1Jc

Maybe initially it was, but I can't see how a today's college-prep / AP sequence prepares kids for working in a factory. In fact, the opposite has happened: too many kids are going to college when many would be better off financially learning a trade.

There are no comments on this comment yet.