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[quote=Anonymous]If he can pass the GED exam now, let him pass it now.

When I was a junior in HS there was a budget fight in our state that posed some real risk of cutting money in our district for the kinds of classes I was in school for. (It was a big enough risk that the NYT covered it at the time.) I strongly considered leaving and taking a GED but all of my teachers were hell-bent on the idea that a HS diploma was more valuable and that I'd be sorry if I didn't get one.

I took their advice, but they were wrong. I graduated with my class and attended a SLAC that is often mentioned here. The admissions officer at that college told me to my face that my test scores alone were persuasive to the college I attended and that having a GED would have been an interesting feature, not an obstacle to admitting me. I am sure this would be doubly true of a kid who had done it in order to learn an actual trade.

Since graduate school, I have never been asked about a HS diploma again. [/quote]

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