That dude has a lot of forehead.

The problem is that just discriminates against lower and middle class people more than anything.

It is work experience that has no meaningful value for a career (especially if EVERYONE has it) that mostly just serves to delay when people start college/trade school/whatever. Which hurts their ability to "hit the ground running" because they need to relearn what little they retained from high school but also impacts lifelong learning rather significantly. Whereas anyone who can pay off a doctor to say they have flat feet or some other non "yucky" issue will skip it.

And also? It is more or less worthless for the military. For anything short of cannon fodder, a year is nowhere near enough time to train someone to be useful. Even room clearing (e.g. Rangers) needs significantly more training to be less likely to shoot friendlies than foes. A lot of the problems in the Ukraine war (on both sides, honestly) can be traced to this. A soldier who can do more than "hold the line" needs significant training.

And while I think a return to having a strong emphasis on civil engineering and infrastructure as public service would be a great idea... without an education that is basically just hard physical labor. So now we have even more kids starting with debilitating injuries before they even begin their "real" career.

I say force everyone to do a year of retail. That'll do wonders for compassion as a whole.

We have private schools. But they just can't charge tuition.

Require all private schools that wish to have accreditation take a minimum of $10 and a maximum of $11 of federal dollars.

Fuck that’s awful. Were you in Idaho or something equally awful?

bro you're saying this as a fun anecdote but i'm not from america and this is terrifying

Reddit was right. You are being gang stalked by the government.

I had all 3 branches showing up at my house and lying to my face to get me to join after my school made me take it.

You'd think they would realize that lying to someone who scored really high was a bad idea.

I wonder how low you have to score before the military doesn't bother to recruit you, because I had to take the ASBAV in high school and I just filled in bubbles at random since I had no interest in dying in Iraq. I still got a high enough score that recruiters kept bothering me for years.

It isn't hard...also, they will take you anyway, you would just be a bangbang.

I took it in high school just to have some extra testing under my belt for some reason that made sense at the time. It was probably the easiest test that I'd taken all 4 years. They're not testing for who can be rocket surgeons, but for people who have practical smarts. There were a couple of questions where you were given a series of 10 connected gears and giving the rotation direction of the first had to predict the last. Yeah, not calculus.