Some States Dropping GED Tests Due To Price Spikes

First time accepted submitter murkwood7 writes with news about states looking for an alternative to GED tests because of cost constraints. "Several dozen states are looking for an alternative to the GED high school equivalency test because of concerns that a new version coming out next year is more costly and will no longer be offered in a pencil and paper format. The responsibility for issuing high school equivalency certificates or diplomas rests with states, and they've relied on the General Education Development exam since soon after the test was created to help returning World War II veterans. But now 40 states and the District of Columbia are participating in a working group that's considering what's available besides the GED, and two test makers are hawking new exams."

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[roman_mir]

USA is bankrupt, what 'public education' can you possibly be talking about?

What public education can you be talking about when you have destroyed the manufacturing sector by inflation, regulations and taxes? There is no need for education if you have no manufacturing.

There is no amount of 'public good' that can be created by government intervention.

Re:"no longer be offered in a pencil & paper f

[hairyfeet]

Depends on the school district honestly, we ended up pulling my two boys for home schooling because the local public school is WASP central and if you aren't WASP you might as well be a nigger at a Klan rally for how well you'll be treated. with one Catholic and the other gay? Yeah that place was a shithole for them. The last straw was when an English teacher dedicated her whole damned class for giving a lecture on "Idolaters and Sodomites", yes we SHOULD have sued that place out of existence but my sister was fighting a losing battle with cancer and honestly we just couldn't take any more fucking stress so we told them to go to hell and pulled them out.

So with all the articles on bullying and how even the teachers have been busted encouraging the shit you'd think folks wouldn't paint the GED with such a broad brush, there are a hell of a lot of people who quit public school NOT because they don't want to learn but because the school is a hellhole and the parents can't afford to move. I know I wouldn't wish our school district on a non WASP if they were my worst enemy, its bad enough the black folks all self segregate so their kids don't have to go to "McWhitey" as they call it because all non WASPs are treated like dirt there.