Originally Posted by indigo
Originally Posted by philly103
Taxpayer money makes education free through the 12th grade. Are you drawing an arbitrary line for educating the populace.
Some may say it is not an arbitrary line, but approximates:
- the age of majority (legal adult, citizens can vote, etc)
- the end of secondary education (high school graduation) for most students... (although not those accelerated, dual-enrolled, etc)


It's arbitrary because it has no relationship to education. You can't drink until you're 21. You can't run for Congress until you're 25. We have a variety of age cutoffs for a variety of things throughout the country, none of them are any more targeted to public education than any other.

And while it is the end of secondary education, the point of my posting is that it's arbitrary to stop public education at secondary education when we know that a decent portion of the population will be engaged in tertiary education.

In 1950, 34% of the population had completed high school. In 2016, 33% of the population had a 4 year degree. Yet we funded public education through high school in 1950. Just looking at education trends, the attendance and completion of college in this country is already at the point where we felt complete funding was necessary for secondary education.