What I inferred was that the real problem wasn't that they failed - complete failure they would have recovered from. Unfortunately, they did not understand what their state was when only some of them failed, and did not figure out how to recover.

You might want to look into OpenLaszlo.

I like the idea of this program.

I hated HS and would have done anything to get out early.

In the end, as there was no early out, I simply dropped out of HS entirely. A bit thereafter I took the insanely easy GED exam, got my paper and started at my local community college in what would have been my senior year in HS.

I don't regret that decision. Never have. And once you have your BS/BA no one cares about your HS history.

UW Academy. They didn't give us high school diplomas, but once you have a bachelors, who cares if you graduated from high school? (Also, the continued success of the program is proof that at least some 16 year olds can handle themselves in a university setting)

Nonsense.

The extra 2 years doesn't help anything.

HELL, an extra 6 years doesn't help anything quite often.

The people with talent are having their time wasted due to boredom and those without talent
are also having their talent wasted due to boredom. Artificially extending childhood just
feeds on itself.

Off to college at 16 is not entirely unprecedented.

The cultural failings that cause 16 year old to be children aren't fixed by subjecting them to 2 more years of high school.

I can't tell if I'm going a little over 45 or just at 45. My speedo's marked at 5mph intervals so I know I'm roughly around 40..43? or 42..45? Or somewhere in there. In any case, the needle's "on 45" in multiple positions so I might be at 44.5 or 45.5 or whatever. It doesn't honestly matter.

I'm no expert, but isn't cat5 4x twisted pair? So eight conductors, not four? Glancing at a cable I have handy, it appears to have eight contacts. I assume this means a differencing technique at the receiving end? Or is there actually a common?

Only two pairs are used in standard duplex Ethernet. The other four conductors are occasionally used for Power over Ethernet. See the pinout.

A community college is a strange beast... kind of like vaudeville, its either people moving up and out, or down and out... If you look at is as "college minor leagues" then maybe there is a good point to be made. They will be presented with college-level (or near college-level, depending on your aspirations) classes but still live at home. One of the most valuable aspects in any career is experience, and if you can get more experience than sitting on your butt in high school for two years, that's two years you could be apprenticing or taking core classes that will allow to jump head first into the next step of your studies.

I can see this having a positive effect, as there may just be those "driven underachievers" who would put in the effort just get out of HS early and on with the next thing in their life (hopefully skilled trades). It certainly beats letting kids just drop out.

and imagine how much this is going ot cost the tax payers for this big-time screw up. nice!

It actually can.
I did this very thing some 25+ years ago now.
though my highschool was paying for my community college
at the time. The was pre-AP classes and this was their version.

It was a very useful thing to do community college before
I went on to a real university. not for everyone but
it was like a halfway program for higher education.

"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"

Senior year is no less beneficial than the years before it.

In fact, education has exponential rewards as a function of time invested. I'm a 4th year graduate student and without a doubt, I have learned more in each year than I learned in the year before it, going back as far as I can remember. This is because I don't just learn facts -- I learn how to learn faster. On top of that, I learn a lot of facts as well...and on top of that, the more facts you know, the more you can put new facts into perspective.

Anyone who thinks they have finished learning by 11th graduate (a stupidly arbitrary threshold if I may say so) probably hasn't done much learning to speak of...

My point is not that 12th grade is important for everyone. Some people will go on to be janitors or other members of blue collar society where it is not necessary to read, write, etc....and that's perfectly fine. But if that's FINE as far as the state is concerned, then there's no reason to make the first 3 years mandatory either. In fact, I like the idea of school being entirely optional.

Well, there is just one caveat -- if school is entirely optional than we may need to make suffrage a privilige rather than an inalienable right. This would be necessary to avoid all the uneducated idiot masses from voting the next GW into office without any clue of what they are voting for.

I personally enjoyed the caption: "The image below is of the Mac version" Followed immediately by a screenshot of the Windows 3.11 version.

The article was pretty poorly-edited.

Is it just me, or does the stuff on the screen look more 3D than the physical device itself? I think they need a bit better lighting in their photos. If you've got enough other depth cues, your brain will make the image 3D without needing stereoscopy. If you haven't, adding stereoscopy just gives me a headache.

Nope. No available option to insure any of the accessories.

And of course every time there's a new phone model, there's a new fucking adapter jack to make sure your old chargers don't work.

They sell you the phone, they sell you the insurance, they give you a "package deal" on accessories, and NEVER do they mention that out of all the stuff you just purchased in a single lump, the only thing the insurance is covering is the phone itself, even if THEY choose to replace it with a different model and outmode all your other accessories.