The vo-tech angle was the first thing I thought about when reading this. I guess my take would be that ALL types of education should be raising their standards (much like all schools should be striving to improve the quality and diversity of offerings). More = more!

Kids should read sooner, algebra (and pre-algebra) should be done sooner, etc. How many of our grandparents were relatively educated citizens but never graduated high school? Or even 8th grade? Yet they could spin a good letter, read well, ran businesses, etc. Seems to me that a lot of what happens from around third grade to eighth grade is insufficient and wasted time on projects or junk in the classroom — as I’ve said before, let’s stop focusing on college prep and start focusing on college prep-prep. Fix the middle schools and you’ve fixed half of education in this state and country.

So, a-g is a start but insufficient. Need to reach down into elementary education. Make every kid read by 3rd grade and start beefing up the program from there.

I can never make your daytime events but I like the blog. Keep it up. Hope SVEF is treating you well.

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