> You typically need to have attended a good university to get a good job and to get into a good university you need to have graduated from a good secondary school
My parents were in the military so I floated all over as a kid, even through high school.
After high school I managed to get merit scholarships, but only enough to fully cover an in-state school 99% of you have never heard of, the very illustrious University of North Florida.
Despite all of that I've done just fine for myself since by taking advantage of opportunities that have been available to me. It depends on career field, but people are increasingly aware that graduating from a good school is not a predictor of success and that graduating from a "bad" school is not a predictor of failure.
I agree that education in the U.S. is broken in general, but I disagree on the emphasis you place on which University one attends.
P.S. In my travels as a child I've never been in a school system that wasn't already at a county level, so I'm not sure how helpful that suggestion would be. The counties are apparently still earmarking money from wealthy communities back to the schools that service those communities.
The only thing I've heard about UNF is that U Never Finish, because the registration system was completely fubar'd. IIRC, there was a story about a CS student that wrote a bit of software to try and work around the registration system, but it was shut down by the administration.
Registration worked fine while I was there, but the nickname was 'U Never Finish' regardless. I guess our student body wasn't inventive enough to ever come up with anything better. ;)
My parents were in the military so I floated all over as a kid, even through high school.
After high school I managed to get merit scholarships, but only enough to fully cover an in-state school 99% of you have never heard of, the very illustrious University of North Florida.
Despite all of that I've done just fine for myself since by taking advantage of opportunities that have been available to me. It depends on career field, but people are increasingly aware that graduating from a good school is not a predictor of success and that graduating from a "bad" school is not a predictor of failure.
I agree that education in the U.S. is broken in general, but I disagree on the emphasis you place on which University one attends.
P.S. In my travels as a child I've never been in a school system that wasn't already at a county level, so I'm not sure how helpful that suggestion would be. The counties are apparently still earmarking money from wealthy communities back to the schools that service those communities.