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A recent article in the New York Times discusses a new plan to allow 10th graders in high school to take a comprehensive board exam that, upon passing, would allow them to immediately enroll in community college.

It's difficult to understand the reasoning behind wanting a 16 year old to go to any sort of college, community or not. Community college courses, while preparatory in nature, are still more fast-paced than their high school counterparts. These kids are going to be walking into a setting that they are most likely not going to be prepared to handle.  

This program was instituted as a need to prevent kids from having to take remedial courses in college. But too many come into high school without the proper prerequisites needed to thrive. An accelerated program will only serve to widen this disconnect between the very few who are able to keep up and the rest of the student body.    

What needs to be done is to prepare these children at a younger age. Let's make elementary school and middle school more challenging and engaging for these kids. And let's make sure these kids are learning the fundamentals of our core subjects like math, science, language arts and the social sciences before advancing them. This will serve as impetus they need to work hard in high school and find success in their post secondary schooling.

This is what Learn To Be is all about.  We are allowing that young student who is struggling with a math problem or a science problem to get the help they need, understand concepts and move on to new material. Students no longer have to hate language arts because they will get one-on-one attention, giving them confidence that they can carry with them well into the future.  

-Your Friends at Learn To Be

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