Posted on 02/17/2022 7:13:51 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
The GED Testing Service requires test-takers be 16 years of age or older. However, most states require that a person be 18 years or older. This needs to change: Anyone age 16 or older should be permitted to take the GED. High achieving students deserve the ability to verify their proficiency in key subjects so they can get on with college.
Going even further, states should deem that anyone who scores high enough shall have satisfied the state’s graduation requirements and can leave school.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolicy.com ...
They will start adding other requirements to get a High School Degree, like “volunteering” for certain activities.
Since when do we change policies to benefit high achievers. This is unacceptable!
Wow...must have been a very sad loss for your family.
I was 16 on graduation day from high school. I immediately started college classes in June. I had applied late to UCSD, so my start date would be January 1974. I turned 17 in August 1973. My Fall semester at Southwestern college overlapped my first two weeks at UCSD.
I took 18 to 22 quarter units every quarter and graduated in June 1976 at age 19. It was a hard slog, but a worthwhile investment of effort.
There shouldn't be a minimum age to take the GED. If you're ready and able, take it. Move on with life. It's certainly easier than having to petition the local school board and having an impact only as broad as the high school district.
Because of slut culture, the prettier 18+ year old college girls date in the big leagues. Most young men experience poor dating choices from age 18 until around age 35. Then the script flips. Average looking 14-year-old boys might be advised to get their romance education in high school, before their blackout period starts. Advanced leftist brainwashing can wait.
I grew up in a Navy household. My dad was XO of some ship or base much of my life. By the time I graduated from UCSD at 19, the Navy had become a political mess. My dad was XO of 32nd St Naval Station, San Diego at the time. I opted not to go the military route, but I've spent over 30 years as a DoD contractor delivering key systems to the military in foreign countries and the US. Riding the NATO bus in Izmir, Turkey with armed escorts (9mm submachineguns front/rear) is the closest I've been to potential flying lead. My reason for some fluency in French, German, Italian and Turkish was driven by the delivery destinations.
My son graduated with a 4.33 GPA (multiple AP classes). He signed up for USMC reserve before his senior year. Upon graduation in June 2001, he was off to boot camp in San Diego. He was still in camp when the 9-11-2001 attack occurred. He landed at Kuwait airport on his 19th birthday on April 18, 2003. Since returning home, he has earned a BA in Business Administration and a BA in Physics. The BA in Business Admin financed by military benefits. The BA in Physics on his nickel.
I had to take the SAT II in German as part of my demonstration of proficiency at Revelle College, UCSD. There was a 12 year old in the same test session. He already had a master's. The physics department wanted him to take an exam as a prerequisite for entering the PhD program. There are a few prodigy/overachievers that you encounter in life.
We enjoyed our tour of Cigli AFB back in the 60’s.
From what I understand Izmir was always fairly tolerant of American GIs. I guess being on the coast helped.
Ankara, not as much.
But it has been many years.
High school was a joke and nearly a complete waste of time, and I went to one of the worst black high schools in the country and two of the best and affluent high schools.
***I went to what was arguably the worst high school in the nation. A woman who taught there wrote a book about it, it became the movie Dangerous Minds with Michelle Pfeiffer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlmont_High_School
They didn’t have such programs when I went there. I heard about the High School Proficiency Exam in my advanced Math class, thought about it for 3 days, and decided to quit high school and take the test. I was in college the next semester. I like to say I willingly went to high school for 3 days.
If I had been aware of any alternatives, I could have done things completely different. But the education folks [including my dad, who was a teacher] are not interested in showing you alternatives.
I took the California High School Equivalency at 16 and went to college.
You don’t need the GED.
I feel no stigma after 40 years.
I still outperform at work, out compete at just about whatever I do.
It’s in my nature.
My nephew and niece (twins) also tested out and both became doctors at age 23
Winning feels great!
A GED doesn’t begin to show students are ready for college.
But public education at this point is rotten to the core.
Right there with you.
High Skrewel was stupid.
At the time of my visit, the Turkish Lira was 8100 to the USD. It was necessary to learn to count to fairly high numbers in Turkish to deal with the currency. I sought some of the salted yogurt drink on my after work walk. The shop selling it spoke only Turkish. Real "on the ground" practice. I engaged the concierge at the Hilton for about 20 minutes before the conversation exceeded my vocabulary in Turkish. I haven't needed to use the language since completion of that trip. Still fun.
They actually optimize how many students they graduate. That is why they want the student count high and the standards low.
Exactly. The state funding per school depends on the number of students.
Salaries and pensions for teachers and hangers-on is the purpose of public schools.
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