Their interests are best served by becoming educated productive members of society.

This feel good, utopia, idea that children have no need to be concerned with learning a skill set, or learning how to be productive members of society (which yes means often working for companies) is part of the moronic political drivel that "education reformers" and teachers unions are pushing that are causing the American schooling system to fall behind the rest of the world.

Lets start teaching hard science, math, etc. Lets start grading with red ink again, and Lets stop with the participation trophies and the like