<p>Interesting article about making the senior year optional. With budget cuts, I can see this as a real possibility. As a high school teacher in the midwest, I think a many our students would happily do away with the senior year. Many of them have the required credits by Christmas anyway. I'm curious what students think.</p>
<p>In</a> Utah, a plan to cut 12th grade - Los Angeles Times</p>
<p>At my school you could graduate a year or a semester early if you had the credits also. Though the college-bound (I’d say 40% or so of the kids at my high school went to a University at the level of Michigan State or better so there’s a lot of strong college bound students) students never really did this, and people just going through the motions to get a degree and get out of school forever probably didn’t have the credits.</p>
<p>I think this should be an option for kids who are going to graduate and either go to work in a factory (HA!) or go to a technical school.</p>
<p>Many technical schools don’t require senior-level math classes or the such and it would get a head start on their career. And many of those kids don’t want to be in traditional school anyway (many are technical people who want to do hands-on stuff). </p>
<p>On a personal level though I wouldn’t ever skip senior year. It wasn’t particularly challenging, but it is the capstone of 13 years of education.</p>