Libtard: Damn stoopid republirats!
Republitard: No, it was you sissy libruls!
Normal human: sigh, not this shit again.
Libtard: Damn stoopid republirats!If liberals hadn't turned schools into institutions of good feelings rather than the institutions of learning they used to be, kids wouldn't need as many years to get the basics down. Our schools graduate people who can't read because of the liberal agenda.
I don't see a problem, I mean why do we need Utah to have good education? We have plenty of educated people coming from overseas for the high tech jobs, Utah kids can do menial labor or something.
Are Americans unedumated?
Here's an idea. Lets have LESS school.
Utah is an ass.
Most students are academically prepared for college well before they graduate.
I know of people that went to Summer school after their junior year to get the last credit needed to graduate(another year of English). I could have done this as well and had an SAT score that would have gotten me into most colleges, but high school was too fun...
looking back though, college was so much better and I should have went early.
Food for thought, Utah is Mormon Country USA. The Mormon Church is a non taxable entity and a tax shelter...There are lots of affluent people in the church. Granted this will never happen, but it would give the states far more money to waste on pet projects.
If liberals hadn't turned schools into institutions of good feelings rather than the institutions of learning they used to be, kids wouldn't need as many years to get the basics down. Our schools graduate people who can't read because of the liberal agenda.
High school is a joke, the large majority of classes didn't teach anything useful anyways. You could probably cut HS down to two years and not miss out on much.
I could count on one hand the number of HS classes that were beneficial to me in college (mainly math courses).
I went to university right after highschool and got a BA & a BS, and found the career was unfulfilling. 6 years ago I left the IT world to work in plumbing & HVAC that is much more satisfying.I myself left school at age 16 and went to polytech to learn to be an auto mechanic. I studied for 2 years, got certified, worked in the field for a couple of years and found it unfulfilling. So I got my high school qualifications through the mail and went to university. But most of the people I worked with at polytech are still in the field and the smarter ones are making decent money. The world needs panelbeaters and welders and fishermen and I think it's sad that many look down on people in the trades.
and physicsHigh school is a joke, the large majority of classes didn't teach anything useful anyways. You could probably cut HS down to two years and not miss out on much.
I could count on one hand the number of HS classes that were beneficial to me in college (mainly math courses).
If liberals hadn't turned schools into institutions of good feelings rather than the institutions of learning they used to be, kids wouldn't need as many years to get the basics down. Our schools graduate people who can't read because of the liberal agenda.
Yes, because No Child Left Behind has proven to be such a great education program. Politics in general has goatscrewed the education system and taken something that had enough issues to begin with and then shit on it 20 times over.
Why, are you laughing?
Basically my feelings on this. You could graduate a semester early at the high school I went to. This would just be graduating two semesters early. If a student has met all the requirements for graduation laid out by the state, I don't see a problem. Let them graduate and start working full-time and making some money.I think the knee-jerk reaction is to think it's a preposterous idea, and I did when I read the thread title.
But reading the article and thinking about it, it's really not all that bad if it's just offered as an option. How many people did you know that took a year full of blow-off classes as seniors. If they want to, that's all well and good and part of the high school tradition or whatever.
But if a kid has been accepted to the college he wants, and has taken all of his core classes or whatever, wtf's the point of making him stay around and fill his day with cooking classes and study halls? Let him go to college and become a productive member or society a year earlier.
I think people assume that every kid is just going to drop out of school if he's given the opportunity. As dumb as kids can be when they're 17, I think most of would know that's a bad idea. I actually think that making the senior year optional is one of those choices that would simply make things that were going to happen anyway, happen earlier. Either the kid will have worked hard up to that point and take advantage of this, or he'll not go and go to work or whatever and save the state money. The natural progression will be maintained.
Sounds good to me. They can fall 20 places and still be in the middle of the pack. If their public education is doing too well, cut it back.Except Utah is #2 in graduation rate, (2nd only to Minnesota) http://www.ors2.state.sc.us/abstract/chapter1/staterank6_07.php
Being stupid is not Utah's problem (at least compared to the rest of the USA)
And its not like most states dont already have an early graduation option anyways.
Stop and think before posting knee jerk reactions.
So instead of senioritis they'd have junioritis. Then they'd try to get rid of that. Slippery slope toward the republican goal of eliminating public education and replacing it with vouchers so all American children can go to parochial schools and learn about Jesus.
So the state budget has a $700 million windfall and this genius thinks the solution is to cut education?
Awesome.
Let's not identify wasteful or pork spending. Cut education. That's the ticket.