<p>@#54 It <em>is</em> disquieting, Skyhook. I’d even bump it up to <em>alarming</em>! IMO, there are no simple answers to your question: “What should high schools be doing to respond to this?”</p>
<p>If you look around the world to see how countries are educating their “next generation”, you’ll find the gamut from “doing nothing” to “lock-step-age-15-testing” (enter-college, vocational-school, OR a minimum-wage-untrained-job-in-the-service-industry: No Questions Allowed!) to the US’s very liberal hands-off approach.</p>
<p>Each has good points and bad. Each is a viable choice depending on what is perceived to be needed / desired / possible.</p>
<p>Can America as a collective whole agree on its future course? It’s a huge, diverse, unwieldy ship. Godspeed!</p>