One off-the wall suggestion that I kind of like is to nationally allow kids after sixth grade to choose vocational training or higher education based on their interest and aptitude. I don't really like it because I've heard that in communist countries this is mandatory and I think i would not like to see it ever become manditory. I've read theories that in the old one-room schoolhouses where no one but the college bound made it past eighth grade, they supposedly studied fewer subjects deeper while they were there. The after school job market is yet another whole different conversation. And it involves the changed labor needs of a new technology society. Education reform is just such a big thought. There's just so many details. And which way should we go with them?
