Quote Originally Posted by blue View Post
Absolutely!! After students learn the basics they should ether go to vocational schooling or college prep schooling and the drop outs can tend counters at fast food joints/Wal Marts/Dead End Jobs. We could rebuild our work force if we stopped emphasising every runny nosed spoiled kid could be the POTUS and became realistic that some of us are better off working with our hands and some just arent suited for jobs that require any type of thinking whatsoever.

Aptitude based learning after the basics have been learned.
Who decides what the aptitudes are, and when do they do that?

What you recommend sound suspiciously like a certain system practiced
by a certain country famous more for raising a white flag than anything else.....

Ask me at 17 if I was going to be a career soldier and an electronic tech in the civilian world.