Reply #44: MORE RADICAL: end social promotion/have set objectives with no minimum [View All]

[yurbud]

time limit.

Learn the material sooner, advance sooner, get out sooner.

For those who think education should prepare people for the workforce, this does. You have a job to do and if you do it well, you are rewarded.

Come to think of it, they even do that in prison; if you behave yourself, you get out sooner.

I was a smart kid, but after about fifth grade, I realized they weren't going to teach me anything new until high school, but I had to stay with the knuckle-draggers anyway.

I lost motivation.

If smart kids knew that if they worked harder, they could escape sooner, they would do better.

It would also help average students who just want to get out into the workforce. If they buckled down, they'd get their sooner.

An added incentive would be if you finished high school before you are 18, you should get college on the districts dime until you are 18.

Conversely, if you don't finish high school by 18, they can just send you straight to prison.

I'm not sure if there will be constitutional obstacles to the last part.