<p>"Do you really mean that our K-12 system works as intended? Aren’t our high dropout rates in high school and first years of college defeating the notion of “not entering the workforce?” </p>
<p>I really do mean that K-12 works as intended. And that the high dropout rates (or whatever the new tests cause the system to do) are very necessary to provide a smallish low-wage workforce that accepts that they are getting what they deserve. Now the job is to convince college grads that they aren’t really worth that much more.</p>
<p>“Nice food and shoes but nobody sees them as an economic technological leader.”</p>
<p>For that, you need Indian and Chinese immigrants, in large numbers.</p>