The article suggests that home schooling in high school is a potential solution to the problem, but for sports programs and cooperative teaching of various subjects. But the thing high school kids are missing is the hard work that kids need to do. As colleges and high school classes protest hard assignments and demand free weekends, their education suffers. I suspect many home school parents are not up to the task of assigning loads of homedwork as well.
High schools are also off track with the concept of group assignments, these allow weaker students to coopt the grades of stronger students, (I'll do the artwork). Also group activities are an opportunity to mix work with play. Not a way to get lots of work done.
I agree too that high schools are spending a lot of time brainwashing the next generation to vote democrat, normalize homosexuality, socialize the economy, and blame capitalists for the state of the environment.
I don't see the article having the solution, of course home schooling is better than public school, but is it tough enough?
High schools could win back these kids if the teachers would assign high levels of work and the schools would bring back tallented coaching to afterschool programs. This won't happen, but it is worth a thought.
The most amaxzing thing is that Gates, an ardent supporter of liberal causes, and a funder of racist scholarship programs apparently sees that the present system is failing. I wonder what he thinks should be done?
Many home schooled high school kids are taking classes at Comminity colleges. I think they are getting sufficient homework loads. Most parents of high schoolers have no problem assigning work to their kids. I'm on a Classical homeschoolers thread, and I guarantee you that those kids do twice the reading that kids in typical high schools do.
Folks have this notion that since most parents don't know ALL the subjects a student needs in high school, that they can't possibly give their kids the education they need. They don't understand that ALL the learning is not done at home and not taught by the parents. Classes are held in co-ops, kids attend college, and sometimes tutors are employed. In many cases, the kids can teach themselves the subjects. This is especially true in Languages Arts and the Humanities where the majority of learning is done by reading about the subject, or reading novels, plays, poetry, etc in Literature.