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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."
That's what you get if you privatise the schools but not the funding for the schools.
Schools should be private of-course, just like shoes should be private and there should be no taxes going towards schools just like there are no taxes going towards shoes.
Do you see cost over-runs, no incentives to keep costs down, no incentive to make availability or improve usability, no incentives for all the other stuff in the shoes market?
There is no difference between shoes and schools, the difference is government money and all matter of involvement, regulations, etc.
It's a scam alright.
You can't handle the truth.
Most are just retarded kids that think they are smarter than they really are and drop out of high school. Hey kids, want to prove the world you are a dumb fuck? drop out of school.
The smart ones realize they really are dumb fucks for dropping out and go back and get their GED.
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.
You can't handle the truth.
You should learn why education developed so much in the last few hundred years then and compare the countries by their manufacturing base and education levels.
In any case, you will get more of what you subsidise and so if you subsidise public education, you'll get more of it, but it won't be of any use, it won't be any good.
You'll get all these worthless sociology and other humanities studies and the rate of students in hard sciences and engineering will be going down, lower and lower the less manufacturing you have.
You can't handle the truth.
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.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Oh no, I wish to fucking God I was exaggerating, she got two weeks suspension and we got a LONG apology from the assitant principle (because even a blind man could see they had let shit get too far) but we were so fucking beat down, my sister was down to 110 pounds, the bones were beginning to get brittle, it was too much. We told them to piss off and took the kids out.
To let ya know how bad they knew they fucked up whenever we needed a bit of paperwork all i had to do was show up and the assistant was meeting me at the car with anything I wanted, they were really worried sick we would change our minds and get nasty. Last I heard though the bitch was still there, they just moved her closer to the principle's office to rope her ass in line. I mean when you have black people self segregating to stay the fuck OUT of the nice school? You should KNOW shit be fucked up.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.