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		dartharva 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US High school students' scores fall in reading an... I challenge you to take a batch of any random 10 8th grade students and have them do any serious work. Would love to see how suitable for work and job markets they are.

OhMeadhbh 3 months ago [–]

Good point. You may have been able to get a 12 year old to operate a loom or dig coal in the 1890s, but those jobs are thin on the ground these days.

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