In Utah, and in some other states, now there is talk about cutting an entire year or more out of the public school system instead of expanding the time children spend in school to make them more competitive. And it's crazy talk.
A pilot program developed by the National Center on Education and the Economy lets 10th-graders deemed "college-ready" skip both 11th and 12th grades. That might work for a small segment of students if schools spent the money to make them college-ready in four years instead of six. Working on ways to send them out the door at 15 or 16 with inadequate skills to do anything is a waste of time.
