Agreed! For many students, school is just a holding tank until adulthood. I have been against compulsory education for as long as I can remember. So many are just going through the motions without learning anything of importance. I would add to this that one of the chief oppositions to changing anything are the parents. They like their free babysitting. We saw that during the COVID lockdown with remote learning. Parents couldn't wait to get their kids out of the house. Almost immediately we began to read about the fictitious "learning loss."