Originally Posted by indigo
For clarity, if you didn't mean "workforce ready", would you explain what you did mean by "the needs of the students it's "educating"," in the context of your post upthread?
Originally Posted by philly103
A strong argument for reducing the cost of public universities is precisely that the current public high school education curriculum does not prepare the average American high school student to actually enter most industries. So, a responsible society has 2 choices.

1) Overhaul pre-college public education such that the students are employable upon graduation; or

2) Subsidize the cost of public university education to accomplish the same goal.

Failing to do either means that we're wasting the money spent on public, pre-college, education since it's largely insufficient for the needs of those it's "educating".

I did explain it. Here's what I typed:

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But we've all read enough to know that for many students graduating from American high schools they are not workforce ready...nor are they college ready...nor are they adequately prepared for a variety of life skills, such as basic financial literacy.

So whether they're looking for job, headed to college or simply going to just "live", they're not adequately prepared across the board.