Wow…Utah High Schools Receive High Marks

Utah high schools are graduating students who are ready to take on the world.

According to KSL:

"A recent national analysis examining all 50 states suggests the Beehive State is earning "good grades" — maybe a solid "B+" — in aligning Utah high school students' experiences with post-graduation academic, professional and personal opportunities.

Released by the nonprofit, nonpartisan XQ Institute, "The Future is High School: A Strategy for State Leaders to Accelerate Learning, Work and American Responsibility" report promotes state policies that can foster postgraduate success for American high school students." (LINK TO FULL ARTICLE)

Apparently, Utah is doing a great job making the learning experience for students flexible. They can take more personalized paths, they can take a bunch of advanced placement courses, and they are getting hands on experiences with apprenticeships and stuff like that.

This is great news.

High school used to just be about sticking gum on the bottom of your desk, bubbling in "C" a hundred times, and not leaving the ping pong paddle bathroom pass in the stall.

Nowadays, kids are coding apps or getting trained on the job by a master carpenter maybe or whatever else.

I think there's been a push to have kids be better ready to get to work right out of high school instead of trying to force all of them to go waste a bunch of money getting a sociology degree.

Put em to work! That's the ticket. They get a good job or into a union or start their own business that's better than getting drunk and studying Chaucer for four years.

Anyway...good for Utah!