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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
I agree that the GED or diploma requirement might arbitrarily exclude people who can do the work, especially for older worker.
But since schools have had an enormous incentive with NCLB to get high school kids through (graduation rate is usually one of the secondary markers for high school AYP), kids who couldn't get through high school in the last five or so years may, for the same reasons they couldn't get though, be less desirable employees. If you can't make it to school because of your family obligations, you may be less likely to make it to work because of your family obligations, etc.
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Might be, but I think that's false reasoning. There are a ton of reasons why someone isn't able to succeed in school and drops out rather than fail again. But then, we're talking about entire districts that are failing NCLB standards, too. I think the standards measure 'failure' but fail themselves to actually address the cause. SES being a HUGE one.
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(Bizarrely, I'd say just as the public got the impression that academic requirements went up with NCLB, what really happened in terms of earning class credit is that the standards have probably gone way down. We have an online program in Georgia called Credit Recovery. If kids fail a class, they can complete it in CR sometimes in mere days or weeks.)
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Don't think that exists here, here mostly I have young kids trying to get diplomas rather than GEDs before they age out of the district after spending several months in bootcamp though, so different perspective. (young = 19-21 usually)