Originally Posted by chuck7251

Depends. I worked at Harvard for a short while doing menial tasks... many students didn't know how to do basic banking... but were absolute geniuses in anything school related... Being smart and having common sense are two VERY different things.

I think I said enough below......

I think I have to call BS on this unless you have some stats to back it up. Even in the inner cities this seems like a VERY high number.



The better question is, where is it a right to be highly educated? We have the right to "Pursuit of Happiness"... ignorance is bliss





I am pretty sure they cannot just drop out at 16. Either they have to be emancipated, then drop out, or have guardians ok.



To me this just shows that education is wasted on youth. How many "uneducated" people wish they could have gone back to school full time at 24 or 25... I do... but at 17-18 school was the last thing on my mind



I actually am having a little trouble follwing this last part.