<p>it is a new plan for education in America. </p>
<p>I read the first 2 clauses, "... 10th grade" and I thought, "this is the dumbest idea in the world" and stopped reading.</p>
<p>I think that it is interesting to say the least, I am not sure if it will work though.</p>
<p>Wow. Why is it that Bloomberg and Klein always want to change the damn schools! I have been a NYC school student and I can not count the dozens of minor to semi changes to the school system!</p>
<p>"For instance, eliminating the 11th- and 12th-grade years of high school would save schools $67 billion nationally, opening up more money to fund universal preschool and even free early childhood programs for low-income 3-year-olds."</p>
<p>---> Who cares about 3 yr olds! They can play with blocks at home!</p>
<p>Maybe I'm just stupid, but did this article really explain how these changes would stop the "high-skill jobs from going to China and India"?</p>
<p>"Now many students just slide through high school, because they know that all they have to do is get passes in their courses or a satisfactory score on an eighth- or ninth-grade-level literacy test to go to college, the report states. "With this system, they will know that they have to work hard in school to get anywhere."</p>
<p>Personally I think that would have the opposite effect. If kids know they have to work hard to get anywhere, then they won't get anywhere. If you raise standards, then you will raise drop-out rates. I hope that made some sense.</p>
<p>I don't think it will ever happen.</p>
<p>^ agreed</p>
<p>While I think that there needs to be some sort of changes done in America regarding education, I am not sure I agree with this. I personally did not start maturing(academically) until the middle of 10th grade, and I do not think I am alone either.</p>
<p>I didn't really start to mature academically until about 10th grade either. I don't understand how this would make anything better. People would lose some basic education they get in high school and I was 15 going into my junior year... but I would instead be 15 going to college?!? That seems like a horrible idea.</p>
<p>Haha. This country is going down the tubes if ideas like this are to be implemented. No Child Left Behind is already ridiculous enough. Useless changes are just going to waste taxpayer money and are not going to make the country better.</p>
<p>I'm not sure I understand (though this might just be shock) -- kids going to college by junior year? What about the licenses! How the heck do they expect me to get anywhere?</p>
<p>making any level of education "free" is not a good idea. I've seen what a free education does to kinds.
The way it is now is better.
And will a 500$ deposit on every birth certificate reallly make that big a difference?</p>