-—1) Open up the GED to any child of **any** age. Remove all age restrictions on these exams! If they pass this exam, or similar private exam, award them an official high school diploma from their local government owned and run socialist-entitlement K-12 school.-—
They could prorate the cost of education based on student age and give the kid a percentage of the savings for opting out sooner.
The political elite are not looking for solutions. But thanks for playing.
First end all teachers unions - period - no exceptions.
Start reforms.
“Encourage employers to use SAT and ACT scores as measures of a young adult’s capacity to learn the job”
This would not replace one of the major reasons employers want a college graduate. It shows them a certain level of responsibility demonstrated over an extended period. IIRC, economists refer to this as ‘signalling’.
It ain’t about education......it’s about control...and a 100-200 grand payoff- or up to 500 grand total if professional grad school is involved.
It’s control.
What you are suggesting is nothing new. We actually did it at a time in our not so distant history when this country was still sane and the educrat unions didn't have a stranglehold on the industry.
Great idea, but the SAT doesn’t measure the student’s ability to get up on time, go to a place of work on a schedule (school/business), tolerate cranky people (teachers/co-workers), turn in homework, get along with others. In short, the SAT, an excellent measure of intelligence and knowledge at a point in time, doesn’t measure other aspects that are often required for work.
Question: if a certain element of society could NOT EVER pass the SAT test, would they remain in school forever? This SAT approach, perhaps supplemented with subject tests, would be great for many, but not all, students.
Your idea would be welcomed by millions of the 50 million students (US Dept of Education) who are trapped in dangerous urban s*** holes called (public) schools. Please, on a periodical basis, give the test to the teachers also.
These are great ideas and I agree with them all. The nut to crack will be getting the embedded educational bureaucracy to agree. Unfortunately, that’s a stone wall.
I would point out that this all starts in the home. ‘nuff said.
If you spend no money, you have no money to skim off.
Another money saver would be to let students drop out who don’t want to be in school and will never pass general requirements if they stay until they are 100 years old. The idea of forcing them to stay in the building until they are of a certain age is ridiculous. They are discipline problems that cause distractions for other students and cost the same as those who want to learn. Let them go find a real job if they can. Those who can’t would just wind up on welfare a few years earlier (unless they are already on welfare).
(1) That test is racist because minorities tend to score lower.
(2) Those tests are racist because minorities tend to score lower.
(3) Those tests are racist because minorities tend to score lower.
Any other ideas?
Fundamentaly, all of our godless government owned and run socialist-entitlmen K-12 schools should be shut down for many reasons. These suggestions would help reduce the number of children attending these schools and, for some children, shorten the time spent in them.
These suggestions would also reduce the number of young adults attending the Marxist indoctrination camps ( mis-named “universities”), reduce their debt, reduce taxes, and increase their lifetime earnings.
Two decades ago, a younger relative realized in his senior year in High School that he didn’t want to go to college.
He tried to get into the GED program, and the school didn’t want to lose the daily $’s for him coming to school.
So he stopped going to school, and he got a good asst principal who lined him up to get into the GED program. He finished in about 6 weeks and scored very high on the test.
Later he went to a trade school where he learned how to work for a living in a specific trade.
He parlayed that experience into another industry and is making good money. Two of his cousins took a similiar route and are well paid “blue collar” guys.
Several o their cousins spent years at college getting instant unemployment degrees and are living at home with their parents or older siblings being waiters or something that doesn’t require a degree. They owe anywhere from a 100k to 250K in student loans for their instant unemployment degrees. Some have masters in instant unemployment.
Use the GED and trade schools and bust the teacher unions and their tax sucking grips on America.
Liberals don’t like tests. Liberals (leftists) claim that using test scores is racist.
The Obama dept of education wants to eliminate testing and substitute apprenticeships for the last two years of education and base all union promotions on seniority, not testing. This would give the “disadvantaged” students who took the apprenticeships rather than the last two years of high school, above the high school graduate in seniority.
So, instead of someone applying for police academy after taking a two year community college course in criminology, we would have former gang bangers graduating from high school with a two year apprenticeship and completed police academy requirements. No testing.
1.) In each school, and in each school district, eliminate one administrative position (and by administrative I do not mean support staff). At the state level, eliminate five administrative positions. Use the money thus saved to increase teacher salaries, hire additional teachers, and purchase needed classroom supplies.
2.) If, at the end of the year, student achievement has not improved significantly (as measured by standard tests, chosen at random to eliminate "teaching to the test"), repeat the process.
In very short order the administrators will figure out how to improve education in order to save their phoney-baloney jobs.
Well, apparently this poster does not take into account that a first-level management position is the starting place where new hires are placed to start their climb to higher levels, for which a real college training is necessary. Filling these levels with candidates for which the level is terminal, blocks access to those who have greater potential.
Such trainees will get shorter assignments across the spectrum to prepare for greater responsibilities.
As a concrete instance, the poster here doesn't know enough grammar to properly use an apostrophe, and has made event's a possessive when the word events, a plural, is needed. An events planner writing notices and announcements for events needs to be a little more refined so the product is not marred by ignorance of grammar and spelling.
Lack of such polish isn't very important for FR posting, but is critical in presenting an urbane image for the employer. A diploma or degree is supposed to supply basic non-negotiable qualifications for career growth.
No employer seeking the benefit of his company wants to hire new employees into positions for which they barely qualify and above which they cannot rise. And his company cannot remain competitive if his employee base cannot grasp changes that require greater business acumen and technological advances going forward.
Fewer teachers would be needed.While I agree that's a great thought, the teachers' unions will be all over that with massive campaign donations to prevent it from ever happening.
A better solution is to make public education illegal!!!
The whole push to demand a college diploma came after the Supreme Court's 1971 Griggs v Duke Power case. Suddenly, any employment exam that flunked more blacks than whites was illegal. So employers used having a college degree as an expensive way to evaluate whether the applicant could read.