Public Education

From a comment on Selenian Boondocks:

I dropped out of the 6th grade in Texas in 1969. When I went back to night school in Florida in 1975, I was not behind students that had dropped out of the 11th and 12th grades. My only reading in the meantime was recreational. There is no way 5 grades can be skipped and still be on a level playing field IF those students had been getting a legitimate education.

In my case, no schooling actually matched public schooling. All four teachers in that semester told me to get a GED and quit wasting my time in their classes.

OTOH, I still don't quite deal with people as well as those that did school with their peers. And I used to be much worse.

Anecdotal but frankly not surprising.

-Max

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