A couple of concepts few will mention.
First a high school education is just the beginning. It is about the basics, not theory. And those kids are still pretty unaware. I play poker with them every day almost.
It is not enough for the average person. They can do better and need to know that.
The goal, should be, IMO, to learn enough to understand Tolstoy and Bertrand Russel, and Sartre, at least a working knowledge.
They don't need to understand James Joyce-lol! That is over kill.
Second, my community college Contra Costa, was filled with "gang bangers", in fact one fraternity was all gang bangers SEX-lol, true, and its president was Ted Costa.
The same Ted Costa who went after me in high school for breaking up with his sister. He apologized in college. I was president of Phi Delta Kappa.
We were the Beatles to their Rolling Stones is how I saw it.
We were clean cut nice guys--and pretty cute-lol.
But college had also taken the edge off them.
The point being that I saw with my own eyes how they all grew intellectually at that college and most transferred to a state college and did just fine.
And it had great teachers.
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