I disagree with this because I don’t think kids at these ages are emotionally mature enough to make the decisions needed to plan their lives after high school.
But that’s just me....
I disagree. At 15, I had my own car, paid for groceries for the house, insurance, gas, etc. and was ready to get the heck out of dodge.
I think there are plenty of kids ready to move on in life. You don’t acquire that wisdom until you experience it yourself so people can tell you all day long what to do and not do and it won’t have an impact until you get hit with a 2x4 of life.
To cut the cost of ‘education’ to the taxpayers:
Cut out Kindergarten. There are no academic courses involved, and it has morphed into being a taxpayer funded child care station. I don’t think it is the job of the taxpayers to provide child care for the kids next door.
Stop ‘teaching’ in several languages. Either the ‘student’ can speak English or the student is not enrolled. Every time a teacher has to stop and clarify something in a classroom for the ‘benefit’ of the non-English speaking ‘student’, it completely drags down all the other students. We are spending millions of dollars ‘teaching’ ‘students’ who are here illegally in the first place. The Teachers Union fought hard in California to allow these illegals into the classroom-—because that meant that more and more ‘teachers’ had to be hired.
Some are and some aren’t emotionally mature. Let the ones that are out of HS and stop wasting their time, I would have LOVED this program and probably thrived, my husband - not so much.
My grandmother graduated from HS at 16 (when you only went 11 years in Texas) and the University of Houston at 19. She did pretty well all her life.
A friend of mine in HS graduated a year early and then from Abilene Christian in 3 years.