These Victorian legacies include: reliance on the generalist class teacher rather than specialist subject teachers, lower per pupil funding than in secondary schools, lower status for primary school teachers, a formal education starting age of five, and long summer holidays which are left over from the days when children were needed to bring in the harvest.

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Alternatively, go to school before starting a family, graduate around the age of 30 with a staggering amount of debt and work for several years to make the qualification pay.

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That, Klein emphasized, is the basic difference between the easier job opportunities for dropouts in an age when a high school degree was not necessary for a starting position.

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