tina (tls@ziplink.net)
Sat, 05 Feb 2000 00:02:25 -0500
At 07:30 PM 2/4/00 EST, you wrote:
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>In a message dated 2/4/00 2:33:29 PM, tls@ziplink.net writes:
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><< I think she has a valid point - how you go about freeing the education
>system is critical. >>
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>I think making attendance strictly voluntary would help a lot more than
>lowering the graduation age.
>
>~woty
>
That's another way to possibly do it. Or to eliminate class requirements.
Or perhaps to allow the students to vote on a curriculum. Even just
eliminating grading as a start might be useful. Or some combination.
The argument for lowering the graduation age is two-fold: it allows a
gradual change and it eliminates a lot of wasted years - there's a lot of
"make-work" to fill 12 years.
The biggest argument against it, I think, is that even with less time in the
system, the damage will have already been done.
T.
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