[webdva]

Is the education of the average person worth it, or anything significant? Considering the average person does not have any significant production capability, a power-law probability distribution average. Not everyone can make things and contribute to society like Elon Musk or else everyone would be named Elon Musk. It's best to just classify only exceptional individuals as more important in large scale public policy. Idealistic socialists would disagree with me but productive reality and politics are not disjoint.

[pizza]

Surely public education is a social good.. Why should there be no right to an education? To measure people by their production output seems disjoint from reality imo.

A better solution to me would just be to provide an option for school to shift one semester forward, or maybe split up this semester over winter and summer, etc. But guaranteeing public education as a right is something that I'll strongly defend.

[webdva]

And you need not defend anything from an an elitist aristocrat like me. We don't live in the same reality—and that is okay. Because there are multiple realities. Unless you wish to object to this notion and assert, like an imperialist, that there is only one reality and that I have to "necessarily conform" to it. Otherwise, you may subscribe to your reality of God given rights, goods, and societies while hyper-reality cosmos-nauts traverse their higher and incomprehensible planes of existences like Lovecraftian antagonists.

[rogerkirkness]

If you consider how competent Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, etc. are, and how early it's clear (both have stories of being labelled as gifted as early as four), the real question is more like how much more effort could be taken to stop them. I doubt school being open or not will make a dent in people of that level, they'll switch to 50 books a year.