Quote:All seriousness to fix education start with scraping the DOE give parents a choice and then keep education as local as possible.


Standardized test are the inevitable end result of a large nationalized system.


Secondly id support ending traditional high school at 16 or the sophomore year. 10 years is long enough to teach math science history and grammar. After graduation students have an option to enter apprenticeships and learn a craft before they're legal adults and on their own. Or if they're smart enough they can get a start on a college education.


I've always thought by 16 you know which kids are going to college and which ones are going into the workforce.

 

Interesting perspective.

 

I don't agree with ending primary education in the sophomore year of high school.  I know for me, I not only learned more "school work" stuff in my junior and senior years, but also learned more about life in general.  At that time, I got my first "real" job where I had to learn responsibility, learn how to actually "do" something and I started interacting with "adults" (people that were gasp! already in their 20's)!

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