Roger Ramjets
Well-known member
Cite?We award high school degrees for "special education" students now who cannot compete with average students. There's a lot of money in it. A whole slew of acts direct funding to making sure stupid people, most of all, are awarded degrees.
Yes, they have - for the better.In 1893 the Massachusetts supreme court upheld the expulsion of a student solely due to poor academic ability. My God, have times changed.
Evidence?Generally the education-industrial complex likes to conflate stupidity with "disabilities", as if a moron was the same thing as Stephen Hawking being in a wheelchair.
In 1870 7 million children were enrolled in elementary schools in the US, and 80,000 (1%) were enrolled in secondary schools. 9,000 college degrees (0.1%) were awarded. In 1990 30 million were enrolled in elementary schools and 11 million (37%) enrolled in secondary schools. Over 1.5 million bachelor's and higher degrees (5%) were awarded.When you increase the proportion of people attending school by 250% the education-industrial complex is the primary beneficiary.
That's a 3700% increase in the proportion who attended secondary school, and a 5000% increase in the proportion who got degrees. Imagine how much the 'education-industrial complex' benefited from that!
And yet here you are, doing exactly that.But this is the one place we are to never question economic motivations.