Posted on 09/24/2020 11:40:46 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
> I think testing is a great idea. But not just for GED...for all college courses <
There is such a thing for colleges now, but it’s not well-known It’s called the CLEP exam. I got a year of college credits that way.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Level_Examination_Program
Man, my son would KILL for that to happen. He’s champing at the bit to get into veterinary medicine and he’d see this as fast track to that. I know there are other kids that would see it that way too, and I’d bet a goodly number from conservative families. Good way to fast track a career while avoiding the indoctrination centers.
What's an advanced degree in blogging?
Changing a couple of words from the stolen material?
Making sure to excerpt in order to drive traffic?
Dang bloggers, parasites one and all.
Frig, I would have passed at 12. Let anyone take it. I like the idea. So much was lost by slowing the mentally fast and the autodidacts down with public school which has a governer of the slowest learners. Brilliance is discouraged. The brilliant are bored to death in public and even private schools.
OK-so you make the GED tougher-tougher than normal requirements. Motivation. One can join the military on their 17th birthday with parental approval. Get their DDform 214 on their 20th birthday. They could have $24k deposited in their ROTH IRA long before age 59, making 40 years of tax-free growth. Gettin’ better my friends.
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GED is aiming rather low, don’t you think? I had my daughters taking the SAT at age 12.
Only if it is one from 1960 or earlier...
MrGayState-I agree with you 100%. It’s an offer. Might even get them to study hard. None of us here guarantee outcomes. That would be like sales being guaranteed jobs or affirmative action.
“They’re already allowed to take the test but they don’t get the diploma until they’re 18.
Most of my HS class was 17 when we got our diplomas.
I hate to point this out. Fractions are easy. Express it as ounces of weed. You would be amazed how many of the brain dead already know fractions well.
They already can. So what.
There are a lot of “test prep” companies that teach to whatever professional test you need to take. I’m sure there are prep courses for the GED. One weekend and most 16-year old kids would ace the GED. On to autobody school and then a career in a business that’ll never run out of business.
-PJ
If the choice to get a GED and skip a couple years of high school along with some help to get into a skill or trade, I would have grabbed it.
Make it difficult.
Military needed folks to have a GED back in my day... School was useless after Jr. High....
Take a kid from a dysfunctional family who wants out. What does the public school do for him/her? Given a chance to leave their family and friends is a scary thought but going into the military at 17 would be like POTUS asking blacks “What have you got to lose?” How about a 16 y/o learning the family business full time? Too much K-12 time is wasted-you all know that. What’s not known(until it’s too late) is you can’t have those year(s) back.
A GED opens the door to further education and job placement; the SAT doesn’t. Otherwise, when I took the SAT (also at 12), I would have jumped into the job market then and there! lol
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