If the child can prove they are literate and numerate with one of these exams then give the child an **official** high school diploma from their local high school. ....Regardless of the child's age!
The system is already in place and ready to go. All it needs is state legislature approval. The next time the legislators cry for more money this is one area they could save lots of tax dollars.
I live in Illinois and am a retired teacher.
What you are proposing here would have absolutely NO chance of passage in this state.
During my career I watched as the state's school system went from an institution that was charged with educating the young to a system that was designed to provide jobs and insurance for union teachers.
These teachers of course are a part of the money laundering operation that the democrat party has developed in many of the states.
These "arrangements" will be defended by whatever means are necessary to insure their survival.
Neither the incompetent teachers/union members nor the unamerican democrat party can survive without these scams and you can rest assured that ANY attack on any part of these alliances will be fought in ANY way that they can imagine.
The ultimate goal has to be the elimation of government-run schools, at all levels including the university level. We should have a system mainly made up of private, non-profit religious colleges along with for-profit colleges that focus in career-oriented subjects. The “liberal arts” education should go to the dustbin of history.
Secular private colleges should be allowed to continue only after they are thoroughly investigated and purged of anti-American elements. After that, they should be closely monitored.
Anti-American academics should be given the choice to leave the country or be segregated into communities set up to house them — communities from which posting anything on the Internet or sending outgoing mail to anyone but close relatives would be banned.