When Unpaid Student Loan Bills Mean You Can No Longer Work
The education industry is kind of a racket. The state pays to send children to 13 years of schooling, but at the end they haven&#x27;t learned much of anything. Someone here at HN had this comment about their experience:<p>&quot;Really just screw public school in general. The whole place was 95% waste of time followed by a &#x27;congratulatory&#x27; piece of paper.&quot; -<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14047919" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14047919</a><p>If a politician was courageous, and didn&#x27;t care about getting re-elected, they&#x27;d point out that the system could be fixed by getting rid of Kindergarten, replacing 1st and 2nd grade with structured activities instead of &#x27;classroom time&#x27; (prison for children), replacing high school with something more like community college, and allowing the remaining years to be much more flexible - conducted for the learner&#x27;s benefit, rather than the system&#x27;s...<p>But school has been transformed from an important social institution into a jobs project. Children &amp; teachers are both trapped.