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't learned much of anything. Someone here at HN had this comment about their experience:<p>"Really just screw public school in general. The whole place was 95% waste of time followed by a 'congratulatory' piece of paper." -<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14047919" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14047919</a><p>If a politician was courageous, and didn't care about getting re-elected, they'd point out that the system could be fixed by getting rid of Kindergarten, replacing 1st and 2nd grade with structured activities instead of 'classroom time' (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's benefit, rather than the system's...<p>But school has been transformed from an important social institution into a jobs project. Children & teachers are both trapped.