Educational Conscription

Fabian Tassano and Surreptitious Evil have been generous enough to invite me to contribute to the Educational Conscription blog.

The most recent post there, by Celia Green, begins as follows:

The fact that the educational system cannot manage to teach basic skills (literacy and numeracy) by the age of sixteen is being taken to justify an even longer period of supervised incarceration (up to the age of eighteen).

And we should not allow this to pass unchallenged.

I'm very grateful to Fabian and S-E for the opportunity to contribute.