Although he makes some good points in his interrupter-heavy prose, the main problem with the idea Kirn is proposing here is that it would slash every school’s faculty by 25%. Boosting a state’s economy by getting rid of its high school’s twelfth grades would be negated by slashing that many jobs. Not to mention that the people who teach seniors are usually the most proven and qualified that any school has to offer, and you would be punishing them for the students they fight so hard to engage.
His other point, that highly achieving seniors already know where they’re going and should have the option of moving on, makes sense though. If that happened, before long colleges would not only smile upon and prefer three year graduates, they would damn near expect them. It would do away with this terrible notion that everyone deserves to go to college. If you didn’t do the homework and put things into place after three years, you wouldn’t go. It would step up elitism everywhere.
Once again, I’m neither Republican nor Democrat.
