High Schools to Offer Plan to Graduate 2 Years Early

NYTimes ^ | February 17, 2010 | By SAM DILLON

[fight_truth_decay]

John Stossel (Fox Business) had a show dealing with education, unions, publc, charter-- discussion tonight. How kids are educated at a dollar a week and beat out the kids in government schools. Parents may only make a dollar a day. S. Africa where teachers can fall asleep and are beholding to no one. The Head Start failure discussion we are dumping more into. etc.

[wintertime]

Don’t you find it just a bit suspect that half the class load for high school not being presented,
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Thanks to the homeschoolers there is now a wide variety of on-line and correspondence courses available to anyone. An ambitious institutionalized student could easily catch up on courses during the summer, weekends, and after school.

And...Please remember, the article states that these students would be required to take a board exam to graduate.

[Kevmo]

I’ve been saying something like this for several years.

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Here’s my modest proposal for education reform — skip high school altogether.

We have been discussing ways to fast track kids through high school to avoid the liberal agenda and other idiocies:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315730/posts?page=84#84

Proposal for the Free Republic High School Diploma.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1316882/posts

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[Clock King]

Stupid idea. Kids need those few years to gather maturity. Sounds like a socialist plan to further the dumbing down of the populace.