Not in the context I’m talking about. Ideally you make it an elevated diploma that resembles an older school curriculum and it is available to be completed at the same time as a regular HS diploma. It would focus more on school topics as they used to be when the kids actually came out with good learnings versus indoctrination. The point would be to force schools to drift away from indictrination to chase federal funding. GED would stand alone as needed.
But again, there should be ideas being pushed to loosen, then remove, the hold on the kids throughout their education. I could write an entire wish list to remove the teacher union’s power and how to tie it to a program like this. That is how you get the kids back on track.....programs....carrot/stick....if we get both house and senate codify it with near zero wiggle room. This is what the DOE should be doing. I have heard more about the 1619 Project and BLM materials being taught...where is the DOE?
If I go on a bit on this topic, it is because if we don’t make up lost ground on schools.....nothing else will matter in the long run IMHO.
It's easy to push, hard to follow-through and there has been push with resulting aggressive push-back.
Federal HS Diploma... Isn't that what the GED already does in practice?
Not in the context I’m talking about. Ideally you make it an elevated diploma that resembles an older school curriculum and it is available to be completed at the same time as a regular HS diploma. It would focus more on school topics as they used to be when the kids actually came out with good learnings versus indoctrination. The point would be to force schools to drift away from indictrination to chase federal funding. GED would stand alone as needed.
But again, there should be ideas being pushed to loosen, then remove, the hold on the kids throughout their education. I could write an entire wish list to remove the teacher union’s power and how to tie it to a program like this. That is how you get the kids back on track.....programs....carrot/stick....if we get both house and senate codify it with near zero wiggle room. This is what the DOE should be doing. I have heard more about the 1619 Project and BLM materials being taught...where is the DOE?
If I go on a bit on this topic, it is because if we don’t make up lost ground on schools.....nothing else will matter in the long run IMHO.
No, I agree with you. It didn't occur to me because some of this is a bit outside of my own perspective.
Thanks for sharing Pede