It is discouraging to read that those with GED are only slightly better off than drop outs. If I were in the market to employ basic labor that did not require college, I would be interested in the individual who, once making the error of dropping out of high school, turned their lives around and got thing going with again with a GED. It would seem to show some real initiative and focus that those who are deemed by the NEA to have achieved at a level to receive a high school diploma too often lack. I also perceive, from reading this, that passing the GED test may require more actual knowledge and understanding of math, reading and science than getting the NEA blessed diploma.
Back in the 1970s a GED was stigmatized as second rate to a real diploma. Back then a high school diploma meant something. I actually got one “F” and had to redo the course in summer school to make it up. Who gets an “F” in high school these days? Seems the stigma of a GED is still there in the face of a possibly higher GED standard of leaning caused by the inflation of the NEA crafted modern high school diploma.
The NappyOne
Bump.