This has been a pet peeve of mine for at least 30 years. It can be fixed but few in Alaska want to hear it.Our education system is truly broken here. There is absolutely no reason that secondary and post secondary education, can't work together to better serve our young generations. I've gone so far as to write up a proposal and present it to a borough but there is just too much resistance from most people.

Failing those that haven't learned, makes me wonder just how many others we have failed that actually want to learn? WA State has had a running start program for over 30 years now and it has allowed high school students the opportunity to not just graduate from high school with honors, but to receive an associates degree on the same stage! Why is there so much territorial protection when our students are the ones that suffer our ignorance?

This same sort of thing still happens in WA, though not as bad as here in AK.