High-school dropouts, the forced proletariat

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I'd really love to hear your thoughts as well as any outside information on the bourgeoisie structuring school systems to create or perpetuate the proletariat through high school drop-out.

[The Douche]

Public schooling in general is designed to condition students for the workforce.

Being a high school dropout only makes it harder to find work. And I am a high school dropout.

[Raightning]

High school dropouts are a problem for the ruling classes no matter what way I look at it, because of the very nature of the system of public schools in capitalist society.

The point of schools is to 'educate', of course. Specifically, they are intended to educate in the manner that best suits the needs of 'society'. This isn't even an open secret, this is something that is preached from the rooftops by bourgeoisie politicians and commentators of all hues.

They don't lie, either. Well, not quite. The main goals of the public school system are two-fold: they aim to build vocational education, and they aim to indoctrinate and to suppress discontent, class consciousness, etc. This is, of course, what best serves the interests of capitalism; a more skilled workforce, and less threat to their fundamental positions.

All of this is straightforward, and I apologise if I patronise by going over it. But you can probably see where I'm going with this. Capitalist 'education' seeks simply to create a more competent and less unified proletariat. For the vast majority, it doesn't matter if they're a dropout or completed high school, they're still proletarians. They gain no benefit from encouraging dropouts; indeed, it may actively be a burden to them.

On the other hand, we do know that capitalism seeks a permanent labour pool with as cheap labour as possible, and the theory about encouraging dropouts may have some crecedence when we consider that. A worker whose education isn't regarded as highly will more-or-less be forced to accept poorer wages and poorer conditions, and thus it may not be in the ruling class interest to secure even the 'education' provided in high school.

But I don't really buy that, honestly, given how devalued even university degrees are considered (graduates working minimum-wage, that sort of thing).