High Schools to Offer Plan to Graduate 2 Years Early

RightinNYC said:

It doesn't mean we'll have a less-educated workforce, as the typical person this is targeted at is not going to have any less education. This is not designed for overachievers who are trying to get a leg up on their admission to Yale, it's designed for kids who know that they want to pursue a trade or similar career and don't feel it's a good use of their time to spend two more years learning irrelevant **** when they could be learning more useful and hands-on things.

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RightinNYC said:

Most colleges will take a few individual students who have completed all of their high school classes by 15 or 16 and who are at the top of their class. I doubt they'll be as eager to take a huge number of kids who have only completed two years of high school and who are not necessarily at the top of their class. I'm sure that they'll take some, but not all.

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Harry Guerrilla said:

I think this can be targeted towards over achievers who don't want to waste their time with that junk.

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Don't you go to a public school?

Here there are a **** ton of remedial classes for adults that don't know algebra and high school reading.
They are usually packed.

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RightinNYC said:

But the "junk" that they would be learning in that last two years is a fairly fundamental part of most liberal arts programs. The rationale for letting some students avoid it is that those who avoid it are not planning on getting a liberal arts degree at any point in the future.

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RightinNYC said:

My high school was public, and it had something like this that was quite successful.

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