Sophomore is the new Senior Options

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Should Kids Be Able To Graduate After 10th Grade?

High school sophomores should be ready for college by age 16. That's the message from New Hampshire education officials, who announced plans Oct. 30 for a new rigorous state board of exams to be given to 10th graders. Students who pass will be prepared to move on to the state's community or technical colleges, skipping the last two years of high school.

Absolutely preposterous! >=0

Reminds me of BSEC here in NYC. Bard High School Early College completes the high school curriculum within 2 years so if the students survive the end of their senior year, they would have an Associates Degree.

[Joanne]

I'm with Natalie on the whole thing about them not being ready yet. Not so much because they're not prepared for college in terms of intelligence, but because they're not ready for it mentally/emotionally. I mean, most sophomores I know are extremely immature.

I actually know someone who went into college at 16 (or was it 15?), and a teacher and I talk about her quite often - she is quite possibly the smartest person I know of, but my teacher constantly brings up the fact that he is totally against it because of her young age. She may be super book-smart, but there are just so many things people her age would not understand.

Think TJ on that '90s WB show "Smart Guy".