Now that I have time to respond:
Doesn't mean I have to agree with it. Hence why I called it garbage.
Attitudes like this are why we're falling behind in education. No one is motivated. They deem what they're learning in school unnecessary, which is absurd. To say that you don't need Algebra just because you'll never see it in the form you're shown in school is...[insert insult here].
Honestly, America may be dishing out factory education, and we're still ahead of most of the world. Now if we could fix this attitude, and start treating teachers like their position matters again, there may be hope for this nation.
Students should learn because they want to, not because they have to. To be honest, I'd love it if the US only took the top 10% into highschool, and sent the others to trade schools. (Where some will end up making more money than those who went to highschool).
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I may agree with Tupac on the fact that students should be exposed to the full brunt of history, at least starting in 5th grade. For those of you who've read the book "Lies my History Teacher told me", then you get what I'm saying.
tl;dr To say you don't need school is to say you don't need a job, don't need to work, etc.