School makes teenagers insane and suicidal. Significantly reducing the amount of time people spend in locked up in child jail, being lectured about irrelevant nonsense and forced to perform totally pointless tasks, would probably reduce school shootings by a huge margin.
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See also: The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan.
Edit: IMO most people should be taught a skeleton curriculum. Smart kids, who are generally easy to spot from an early age, should be offered a more expansive curriculum and fast tracked to college so they can get it over and done with ideally before they turn 18.
Figure source.
See also: The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan.
Edit: IMO most people should be taught a skeleton curriculum. Smart kids, who are generally easy to spot from an early age, should be offered a more expansive curriculum and fast tracked to college so they can get it over and done with ideally before they turn 18.