"WaIIy" wrote
Perhaps you should visit a Cleveland school and see how well things are
going with a 30% graduation rate.

That has nothing to do with my, or Larry's point. Say I'm looking at five
resumes for a trainee position. Four graduated from a Cleveland HS with
above average GPAs. One spent the last 15 years on a boat cruising the
islands with his parents who 'home schooled' him, but he has nothing to
prove that. I don't know if his parents were conscientious or religious
kooks. Now,am I going to call any of them in to take hours of tests to prove
they learned enough to do the job at hand, or am I going to believe the GPAs
and transcripts and round file the fifth kid? It'd be different if the home
schooled kid had the equivalent of the others' credentials but if he doesn't
he's SOL.

Fair? The world isn't fair.