Any 16 year old that can pass the GED would have a choice to make. I think the schools are scared to death of what they decide.
Not only did I leave high school but, I became an emancipated minor as well.
I was stopped by a cop while I was riding my bike to work at midnight.
He read me the riot and insisted he would arrest me for curfew the next time he saw me out.
I informed him that I am an emancipated minor and while he was free to charge me with adult crimes, he had nor authority over me as a juvenile.
He wanted my parent’s number so I gave it to him. She was in Oklahoma and I was in Santa Cruz, Ca.
She informed him that I was indeed emancipated and he still gave me the riot act.
At that point I pulled out my Santa Cruz Sheriff Explorer I.D. and gave him the name of the Sargent in charge of our group.
This guy was just pissed.
So, he called the Sargent and weirdly he calmed down.
Pretty sure the sargent didn’t appreciate the guy’s attitude and was informed that I was also the leader of our Search and Rescue team.
“Any 16 year old that can pass the GED would have a choice to make. I think the schools are scared to death of what they decide.”
I would have done this myself back in the late 80s. I hated high school. I did well ... I was in honors classes and got Bs mostly (some As in stuff I loved, some Cs when I was extremely bored :-) ). I also got along with almost everyone. I simply hated sitting in that institution every day for 7 hours though. I missed a LOT of days :-). I’m sure they thought I was doing drugs or partying, but I was simply exhausted having stayed up all night programming my computers :-) (a Commodore 64, a TRS80 CoCo 2, and an 8088 based PC).
What frustrates the hell out of me is that high school serves little purpose for those that have no desire to go to college. Even those that are college bound get screwed with the current progressive mentality that cripples our schools. So long as your school district isn’t a total shithole, one will likely learn all of the fundamentals they need for life by the end of 8th grade. Most students do terrible mainly due to being completely bored and detached from the things they force down your throat.
That time from 9th grade to 12th grade should be geared towards studying the stuff that interests you ... they should be teaching the concept of “self-learning” and not training you to depend on some “expert” to show you the ropes. This applies to anyone ... not just college bound. The younger someone is, the easier it is for them to absorb knowledge. They ignore this fact and convince kids that they’re worthless unless they attend a college, get a degree in something they more than likely don’t want, then treat them like garbage when they fail to do well in boring nonsense (and also blame conservatives for all of the problems they created, but I digress).
Progressives seem to be obsessed with teaching “English” courses where they shove progressive garbage down your throat, math courses that are taught assuming everyone in the class learns like an aspiring mathematician learns (which is a big reason why anyone that is not a nerd like myself hate math), science courses that are mostly garbage, and other wastes of time.
Overall, our education system offers ZERO choice. It’s stagnant. It’s failing. It needs to be replaced. Of course, the powers that be don’t want to hear any of that ... they have the perfect brainwashing system in place that would make your typical Soviet envious. I wish more people would notice that, but they seem to just accept things as they are and figure that the kids will be OK ... it’s getting to the point where they’re getting stupider just sitting in those dumps. Frustrating.