I’ve long thought that it makes sense just to, “keep them off the streets,” as people like to say, but if you look at recent attendance numbers it’s clear that they’re not going to school, anyway.

So I really just don’t know what we’re doing anymore. - wanye@xwanyex

• It’s a very Soviet kind of arrangement.

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The only reason that 30th percentile students go to high school is because we feel bad flunking them out. There is absolutely no societal advantage in teaching a 10th grader who reads at a 5th grade level how to read at a 6th grade level.