M14 Forum

willriskit

Being a high school graduate has become merely symbolic in some communities. There are several large urban school districts that come to mind who base graduation requirements primarily upon attendance. We had an alumna from one of these who had gotten an under grad degree in spite of the fact that she was functionally illiterate and had to be terminated from our grad school. Even fifty years ago, it was common for non-high school grads from some areas to score much higher on the AFQT than grads from other communities. The problem with this situation was that the HS grads had guaranteed service schools with predictably high drop-out rates. A combination of GT and AFQT scores eventually took precedence.