[sokoloff]

I fear that the high school degree will become (even more) a marker of the passage of time than one of a minimal level of educational mastery.

Let kids take what they’re interested in and put off what they’re not, so long as they eventually do it. What could possibly go wrong? In university, if you clown your schedule, you just don’t graduate until you sort it out. Are we going to have the backbone to do that to high school kids, especially if we find that wealthy, college-track kids manage the flexibility just fine while other students struggle to get the guidance to help them navigate the flexible schedule? I doubt we would.