Let’s just assume that the ultimate goal of United States’...

Let’s just assume that the ultimate goal of United States’ absolutely vile public school system is not to create an army of mindless, insipid, obedient workers that specialise in the completion of mundane and menial laborious tasks to help blindly build a malevolent dystopian corpocratic regime. But shocking and uncomfortably plausible conspiracy theories aside, let us begin by observing and acknowledging the massive flaws of the US’ public education system. There are several aspects surrounding the reasons and evidence of the belief that massive dysfunction, the incursion of the 13th amendment regarding compulsory education, and largely useless content being taught in school is overwhelmingly relevant in the modern school system;†¦show more content†¦Your first sentence, dear imaginary carper, is entirely and undeniably correct; of course children require education, and of course, education is necessary for the development of their cognitive processes. How could I deny this? Notice the fact that nowhere in that statement did I say that compulsory education was necessary, helpful, or even morally legitimate; and the current methodology of education in the United States is entirely corrupt and unhelpful to overall mental development, which I will cover latterl y. Onwards to the second portion of your rebuttal, wherein you imply that schooling, as it is, directly benefits these soon-to-be working adults in their endeavors as working adults. While I will admit that, as mentioned above, education as a concept will no doubt encourage intellective competence, and therefore existing public schools somewhat aid skills in a professional setting, schools are absolutely terrible at this task in the grand scheme of things. If this is truly what public schools nationwide hope to achieve, preparing students for their adult lives and subsequent employment (which seems, to me, at least, very unlikely given their massive amount of failure on this front) then why don’t there exist courses on how to do your taxes, how to ace a job interview, or even just how to work, and I mean really work, not just solving endless streams of mathematical equations or writing