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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]High school should be optional. Read The Case Against Education. [/quote]

HS Teacher - I think we need options.  I like what much of Europe does, with the option to do a vocational school for high school instead of college prep.  I have so many kids telling me that their dream is to go work on a cattle ranch, decorate cakes, or open a construction business, so reading Shakespeare and stumbling through precalculus aren't helping them achieve that.  I wish we had more options for kids to do apprenticeships in high school.

I am very fortunate, I teach in an upper middle class school and we didn't have the behavior problems my colleagues at lower income schools are struggling with.  My kids have been pretty good all year.  They're starting to fade now, but that always happens in the spring.  March is a long month.  Our biggest issue is kids taking hall passes and wandering the building for 30 minutes at a time, but that's not that unusual.[/quote]

PP here. I’m from PA and schools still bus kids to the regional “magnet” vocational school for grades 10-12 if they choose to apply in 9th. I believe they can apply in 10th, too. There’s cosmetology, welding, computer security, woodworking, and others I’m forgetting. They get the certifications you’d need for those professions while they’re in high school. They go to the Vo-tech for half-days, 5 days a week. Multiple school districts send their Vo-tech kids to the same building. [/quote]

We have that here too.[/quote]

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