Originally posted by SVTNupe:
Let's be honest, in some capacity, school is a daycare and an educational institution. However, my point was not to put more of the parenting responsibility on the schools. Just to improve or change the current educational system to better prepare those for the real world.


Like I said, I am aware that it serves as a daycare for many. But are you going to argue that the purpose of school is to babysit children? If so, then why have high school? My point is that although some view and use school as daycare, that is not school's purpose and it should not be treated as such.

Originally posted by Davo:
And I don't know where you work either, however I can take off for a week at time and I'm sure I'm not the only professional who can do that.


I can also take off for a week at a time, but several (5-6 times per year)? No. This professional, real-life environment you'd be training the kids for is far from either.

Originally posted by Davo:
And That's the problem, no one wants to listen and learn. How can one say that learning money management, investing, etc isn't important when it's possibly one of the things you do the most when one does get out in to the work force???


Have you ever heard of personal responsibility? People have a responsibility to listen and learn (even outside of the classroom). Public school was instituted to provide people with a basic education and to teach them skills essential in the pursuit of the American dream. There are countless things I could sit here and tell you I need in order to survive that school could have taught me, but the reality is that there are ways other than school to learn these things. Teaching kids how to have sex is bad enough.