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To: Kevin OMalley
2 posted on
01/08/2005 2:39:33 PM PST by
Kevin OMalley
(No, not Freeper#95235, Freeper #1165: Charter member, What Was My Login Club.)
To: Kevin OMalley
Innovative idea, but for me personally this is a tough call. Expecting mass sums of children to scoot off to college at the tender age of 14 could deprive them of my own similar fond memories of four years of high school, i.e., the girls, sports, and ESPECIALLY debating my liberal journalism teacher, to the point where he turned red in the face, speechless, after losing an argument, embarrassed, as the rest of the students laughed and looked on. That was but one priceless moment I'll never forget.
To: Kevin OMalley
To fast track a kid through an high school equivalent (not too difficult, given the dumbing down of the curriculum) and preferably to give the child more, one would have to start with the basic realization that one is talking about a school program for gifted (and even extremely gifted) children.
If the program is to be organized beyond home schooling by a single family, one would immediately be faced with the pupil selection - if you admit only the kids with IQ 150 and higher, you will have to turn away a kid with IQ 149 (and his/her parents with ACLU lawyers).
Thus the proposed program would have to be private (to keep PC out), tuition-free (so that it could - as it should - discriminate. Paying customer has rights; recipient of largesse does not) - and thus will have to cost a bundle.
5 posted on
01/08/2005 3:10:42 PM PST by
GSlob
To: Kevin OMalley
14 posted on
01/08/2005 3:51:30 PM PST by
Ellesu
To: Kevin OMalley
Say a 8th grader can pass the GED, he doesn't have to go to high school now. Taxpayers would of spent an easy $28,000 (7000 x 4 years) educating the poor lad.
How about paying any kid who can pass the GED early a bonus to get out of school early, saving taxpayers big bucks.
I would think $4000 a fair amount.
Of course non-government educated kids would also be able for the bonus payments. They should not be denied their right to a government education.
15 posted on
01/08/2005 3:52:06 PM PST by
Mark was here
(My tag line was about to be censored.)
To: Kevin OMalley
Bill Gates has declared American high schools "obsolete."
Public education isn't preparing teens
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1367344/posts?page=22#22
The Washington Times ^ | 3-21-05 | Michael Smith
Posted on 03/21/2005 11:12:45 AM PST by JZelle
Bill Gates has declared American high schools "obsolete." In a Feb. 26 speech to the National Education Summit on High Schools, he said "our high schools even when they're working exactly as designed cannot teach our kids what they need to know today." These criticisms are not new, but the fact that America's most successful businessman is concerned about how America will survive in a world that requires educated workers should cause people to take notice. Mr. Gates went on to say he was "terrified for our work force of tomorrow."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/20050320-092252-1935r.htm
34 posted on
03/22/2005 8:21:21 AM PST by
Kevin OMalley
(No, not Freeper#95235, Freeper #1165: Charter member, What Was My Login Club.)
To: Kevin OMalley
35 posted on
12/28/2006 10:00:02 AM PST by
Kevmo
(Darn, if only I had signed up 4 days earlier, I'd have a 3-digit Freeper #)
To: Kevin OMalley
If it is still a GED and not a Diploma, then no, it’s a bad idea.
38 posted on
01/09/2013 8:17:11 AM PST by
Cyber Liberty
(Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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