Thanks for your concern bomber, but you don't have to worry about me .. I can take my punches!
Regardless, our education system is in trouble and has been for some time! Not sure anyone on this board could convince me otherwise.
HSS: You missed my point completely or perhaps I simply did a lousy job of illustrating it. What comes first? The education or the job?
CID: Fair enough. But I have a hang up regarding a certain school that pretends to be one of the best in the state and part of that is actually a result of finding a way of getting rid of the 'poor performing student'. Hence their roughly 50% grad rate.
Punch away.