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[quote=Anonymous][quote]But the problem is that employers, colleges, et cetera are becoming more and more aware that a high school diploma is now worth about the same as an eight grade dropout's education. The diploma becomes devalued when schools are just handing them out rather than expecting kids to actually learn the material. Which means, more and employers will insist on more substantial hiring criteria, whether that's seeing an associates' or a bachelors' degree instead - and voila, you've just shut a lot of kids, even the ones who did work hard and did master the high school material in order to get their diplomas, out of jobs that they might otherwise have gotten, while families struggle to pump money[b] into a college system that's rapidly becoming just as bad as secondary education [/b]- though far more expensive. The whole thing is like trying to build a house on quicksand. Build whatever you like, but since the foundation isn't solid, everything that's built on it is just going to sink anyways.

That's why we need to shore up the foundations. Everything else hangs on that.[/quote]

Shoring up the foundations has to be a grass roots effort.

The college system is still good.  Plenty of people fail out of that system.  The college system is very competitive.  They still have high standards.  But it could be ruined by doing things like dumbing down the SAT and ACT (which are now based on the K-12 system instead of on what colleges want to see).  Gee, wonder why that happened?  [/quote]

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