Justice Versus Age Eligibility Requirements for Attempting a High School Equivalency Test

[Boojatta]

Does it make sense to compel people to attend classes until they are adequately educated when the government's own test would demonstrate that they are already adequately educated before attending the classes?

Under those circumstances, where is the justice in a government forbidding them from having an opportunity to demonstrate that they are already adequately educated?

Interestingly, it could be claimed that they aren't actually forbidden from attempting the test and that instead the authorities simply choose to refrain from giving them the privilege of attempting the test. It might be possible for particular individuals who want to attempt the test, by secret gifts of money to authorities or more complicated schemes, to motivate authorities to allow them to attempt the test. Provided that there is no statement in the law that it is actually forbidden for them to attempt the test, it's not clear that there would be any legal basis for prosecuting anyone for giving such secret gifts of money or using more complicated schemes.

[donco6]

1. We encourage our kids to stay in HS as long as possible.

Why? Because we'll pay for their college courses as soon as they're ready. We have 10 kids on course for their AA degree concurrent with HS graduation. Once they graduate, however, their funding dries up and they're on their own.

We don't have high stakes testing here in CO. . . yet.