[Amelia]

Ah,,,here comes the red herring again. Anything to distract the Freepers from the NEA proposal.

If you'd read the NEA proposal you posted, you'd see that alternatives to the current diploma system comprise point #4 of the proposal:

Expand students' graduation options through creative partnerships with community colleges in career and technical fields and with alternative schools so that students have another way to earn a high school diploma.

Do you agree or disagree?

[wintertime]

Do you agree or disagree?

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I agree that the following is imprisonment of adult 19 to 21 year olds.

From the NEA's own web site:

"MANDATE high school graduation or equivalency as COMPULSORY for everyone below the age of 21. Just as we established compulsory attendance to the age of 16 or 17 in the beginning of the 20th century,it is appropriate and critical to ERADICATE the idea of "dropping out" before achieving a diploma."

"Make high school graduation a federal priority by calling on Congress and the president to invest $10 billion over the next 10 years to support dropout prevention programs and states who MAKE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION COMPULSORY."

There is a plainer way to state this: IMPRISONMENT for 19 to 21 year olds in NEA "graduation centers".

These fascist tyrants make me sick. I am disgusted.

So..if you wish to have a discussion on other parts of the NEA education plan, then start your own thread.

[Kevmo]

I find myself agreeing with both you and Wintertime.

One of my proposals for an alternative path is the Free Republic high school diploma. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1316882/posts

If we freepers pursued a path like this, the NEA would drop their recommendation for such alternatives. The NEA does not have the best interest of students at heart, but rather its core constituency is teachers.

I'm going to post Wintertime's solid example on another thread...
"There are homeschoolers by the thousands who do not have high school diploma. My own homeschoolers with their B.S. degrees in math at age 18 are merely one small example."