<p>I’ve read those articles about the parity into high school. So the bigger question is why do the wheels fall off in high school. Is it that we’ve committed to educating everyone until at least age 16? Or we’re educating to the middle of the bell curve? Or we have poor high school teachers? Until we can objectively look at the 9-12 situation we won’t find answers. We tend as a nation on believing that the strong will survive…and, for the most part that is true. I don’t think it takes much to appreciate that middle class and upper class families with college educated parents have different expectations for their children and we also have reached an apex where the no-college blue collar worker cannot expect to have two homes and a plump retirement so those arguments for not educating a broader spectrum of high school students is a fearsome proposition for many people. We are at the perfect point in history to rethink out 9-12 education system and I’m not sure I’m on the side of “a college degree for all.”</p>