I agree our educational system needs fixing. I don’t have the solution either. I don’t think there are simple answers.

Let’s look at the high school you and I went to in Chicago. It was in the top ten high schools back then. Now it no longer exists as a high school, but instead houses four different kinds of schools to help the students there now.

Is it good that it adapted to the changing conditions? I think so. It served my purposes back in 1964-68 and it serves the purpose of the students it has today.

I think we should require young people to serve our country in one way or another for two years after high school. Then after they complete those two years, give them four years of higher education or specialized training for free. By the time they are 25, they will have learned a great deal from helping and learning.

Of course we need to pay for that somehow. But paying for that is better than the situation we find ourselves in today, in my humble opinion.

Don