Ideas can be very powerful. Letting any child of any age take the GED, or similar private exam is a **good **idea. I hope is grow many big long and powerful legs.
And...It would save the taxpayers **BILLIONS*** and balance the budgets of many states.
Cost to the taxpayer: ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!!
By the way...The GED, or equivalent private exam, should be **REQUIRED** for any child to get and official high school diploma. There are far, far, far, too many illiterates and innumerates walking around with “High School Diploma” on their resumes.
And...I bet a very large percentage of **TEACHERS** would fail the GED, especially the math section. That's my bet.
You are correct re:teachers, just google all the testing scandals of the last couple of years (Atlanta school district, St Louis) and see where they happened and what (not much) has been done about it.