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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Handing everyone a HS diploma helps the higher education economy in that the HS diploma is no longer a useful gauge for a candidate's mental skillsets. One now has to pay for and rely on the college degree to assess basic competency.[/quote]

Yes, and this makes college more expensive for everyone.

The best thing we could do to lower college costs in this country is to go back to high standards for high school graduation. Needing to get a college degree to work at Starbucks to prove that you’re literate and can count change is bad for all of us.[/quote]

Yup. I agree with this 100%.

We need to strike a better balance than what we're currently doing. Passing failing kids along at the rate that we are is just diluting the value of a high school education and that's make the high school diploma worthless, which forces more people to higher ed. If a good public high school diploma was worth the paper it was printed on, we would all be better off as a society.[/quote]

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