[phamilton]

This sort of leads into competency based advancement rather than time based advancement. Rather than having a 4 year program where you rank graduates by competency (gpa), have a higher bar of competency and have people graduate at different rates.

[maxerickson]

That's part of what I'm getting at when I talk about it being an available track.

You can still have everybody lined up to finish ~17 or 18, just allow more variation in what they have finished. If someone doesn't plan to go on to college, maybe they don't need to take college prep math classes and can take classes that will serve them better.