Reply #5: We need to go outside the box. Schools are just not able to produce the

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workforce of the modern world. There is a reason trade/ community colleges are so in need. They end up producing the nurses and paramedics and office personel. One huge relief on schools would be allowing junior/ senior year to be a "trade/ collegiate" type of schooling. My junior and senior years were a waste of time. I had to find classes to take my junior year and my senior year I supplemented with college courses and independent studies. That would be one huge burden lifted off the shoulders of a school cost. 16 yr olds are old enough to have some responsibility. Most have jobs and drive; they ouhgt to get appropriate schooling as well.

The other out of the box idea is to allow prof. to come into the class and help co-teach. One great division lost in education.. even in college, is the pertinant lesson. Why will learning this help me in the real world? Why should I take the time to learn this? What type of life could a path in lit or math or art take me? AND there needs to be more time spent on outside things; things like gardening and cooking and balancing a check book and knowing what debt and earinings look like and how to read the wall street journal. These things are just not being taught at home anymore... there's little time in anyone's life.. even worse if its a single-home family. Its time to design our communities in an organized fashion that allows for us all to pull together. AND it way past the time that WE adults start demanding MORE time for our families. Its absurd that we do not demand our rights; and if denied, take them. Fear is the worst problem for Americans.