broke: school should teach more important stuff, such as [basic skill possessed by all animals and actively destroyed by school] woke: school should not exist
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Idea: let kids challenge the need for further schooling with exams - if they can demonstrate a basic level of reading, writing, arithmetic, and some basic facts about the world, they can forgo the need for school. Should be passable by any diligent child - not just for brights.
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i'll take it over the current system!
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first thing off the top of my head -- take all the money spent on child prison and use it on community libraries, staffed with people who can connect local kids to mentors (probably a role for social workers in this, too) (probably the libraries should be fairly exclusive)
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Not convinced libraries really replace schools.
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