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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a lot on parents too. Hopefully, at the HS level, your child understands they have an increasing level of responsibility in their own education and grades does not = education.

I was pretty clear with my kids that their growth and education was what they put into it.

Timeliness and attendance are fundamentally about respect for themselves and their learning, respect for the teacher and classmates.

When you register for a class, you are essentially saying you’ll attend.

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Some kids don't care for school. They never asked to be there and are there reluctantly. The problem is we don't recognize this and like pretend that all kids are the same.[/quote

True. Kids aren’t all the same.

But with whom should the burden of reconciling that reluctance sit?

How can a system be infused with a mechanism to ask one to make a commitment?

I’m aware of countries (e.g., Brazil, Nigeria, Japan, India, China, UK) that require exams, the scores of which open or limit next steps;  I see this as potentially distorting and biased.

What if instead of an exam like in the countries above, there was a process asking kids and their families to state their commitment to further education. This should happen near the end of compulsory education (~16 in US), but perhaps at earlier stages as well.

If, at 16, a kid decides they are no longer committed to their education they forge a different path (e.g., a job, vocational, tech school).

Whether a student earns a HS diploma- and all that offers- is up to them. 
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Agree with this. I am not sure why we are insisting on these standards for the kids who just don't want to be there, and probably will never use half the things they learn in 11th/12th in their lives. They should be given the chance after tenth for job training or vocational school. [/quote]

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