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Not only that, but they neutered secondary education to being basically just be college prep. It's almost impossible to just live comfortably on a HS education from the past ~25 years because of how useless the information is to real life.
What was neutered? The job market left a HS education behind a long time ago, and that's not because of the high school curriculum, that's because of the job market
the curriculum did not adapt to the job market
The curriculum is cumulative. In order for it to adapt, kids would have to learn more advanced subjects earlier than they have in years past. There are lots of kids doing this in Advanced Placement classes, but most kids are not ready to progress that quickly.
we could also just allow kids to go to college for free instead of killing them with interest rates :p
No argument here!
And many colleges adapted to AP classes by...not accepting them
That wasn't my experience as a millennial
Did you attend every college?
Where are they not accepting CLEP tests?
First of all, CLEP and AP are not the same thing.
Second, there's plenty of colleges that were very selective of which ones they accepted. Some went and mixed up their core classes just to make it so nothing matched. I went to one