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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole system needs to be torn down at this point. Admission should be based on academic merit, period, and it should be free for any family making less than $150k / year. The flip side is we probably need to get rid of 2/3 of the schools and rebuild our trades. Federal student loans caused this problem, but too many now depend on them to get rid of them. This will never happen, of course.[/quote]

You are basically arguing for a European system of college.  That's fine...but it already exists and in fact your kid can go to college for free tuition to a number of colleges in Germany, Netherlands, etc. (taught in English) right now.  It also means a number of kids will be told that they can't attend college at all and must learn a trade.  Maybe that is something worthwhile?

Also, you are somewhat replicating the systems in India, China, Korea where I gather there will be now be one test that all HS kids take in either Junior or Senior year of HS and that determines the rest of their life.  In Korea, I believe it is an 8 hour exam...and apparently, some parents are suing because one of the proctors ended the test...one minute early.  Yes, one minute early.  Apparently, the plaintiffs will win their lawsuit based on similar lawsuits succeeding in the past.

These exams are rife with cheating (especially in India and China...there are pictures of parents on ladders trying to sneak answers to their kids through the windows), bribes (many willing proctors) and a horrifically stressful HS experience where your kid attends a normal 8 hour school day followed by 8 hours of cram school as a 9th grader to prepare for that one test in 11th grade.[/quote]

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