Why not close the achievement gap from the top down?

[Anonymous]

I am extreme, pie in the sky, don’t let me derail anyone.
Our education->jobs pipeline needs fixing.
*Anyone* should have access to any education that will get them a job that they want, and/or needed by society.
It sounds like The Giver but there is a lot of freedom in what I’m suggesting. So it’s not dystopian.
It’s new, and it’s meeting the challenges of AI, etc. and meeting flexibility that people want.
Humans want to learn, they want to contribute to others and to their own lives.
Let high schoolers graduate with real skills. College (or no college) can build on it.

Any SAHM who wants work, any recovering addict unhoused, former inmate should be able to train towards a job. Anyone who wants to pivot.

Job creates positions and ed requirements.

People work towards cert for their positions.

It can start at age 10 (where they would take general classes too for exposure to many subjects).

You match with course and age cohorts.

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Back to the main topic. If you applied this to advanced public school students and sped public school students, everyone can move at the paces they need and toward their interests. Middle school and up is fine. And as I said, you can also require electives for exposure to creative subjects outside of the desired job.

So similar to what we have now, but I’m saying we break up “classes” and treat all as individuals. Crazy I know. Cohorts would be created based on interests and educational levels (and as I said, age). Hireable at 14-18 as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am extreme, pie in the sky, don’t let me derail anyone.
Our education->jobs pipeline needs fixing.
*Anyone* should have access to any education that will get them a job that they want, and/or needed by society.
It sounds like The Giver but there is a lot of freedom in what I’m suggesting. So it’s not dystopian.
It’s new, and it’s meeting the challenges of AI, etc. and meeting flexibility that people want.
Humans want to learn, they want to contribute to others and to their own lives.
Let high schoolers graduate with real skills. College (or no college) can build on it.

Any SAHM who wants work, any recovering addict unhoused, former inmate should be able to train towards a job. Anyone who wants to pivot.

Job creates positions and ed requirements.

People work towards cert for their positions.

It can start at age 10 (where they would take general classes too for exposure to many subjects).

You match with course and age cohorts.

—-
Back to the main topic. If you applied this to advanced public school students and sped public school students, everyone can move at the paces they need and toward their interests. Middle school and up is fine. And as I said, you can also require electives for exposure to creative subjects outside of the desired job.

So similar to what we have now, but I’m saying we break up “classes” and treat all as individuals. Crazy I know. Cohorts would be created based on interests and educational levels (and as I said, age). Hireable at 14-18 as well.

Final detail is, like online virtual schools, you complete courses at the module level. Opportunities for in class learning, home review, and hands on classes in the appropriate modules. Proctored testing to pass modules and courses.

It can never happen because of *systems.* But we need this.

I love my kids’ schools, I’m not the one who needs the system to change. But society does.

[Anonymous]

If we had this, no one would proceed past 13 without being able to read.
There would be courses, tutoring, everything available, to all but the most special students, to learn to read.