I went to a school with no letter grades, and skipped a year. Our school used to copy the nyt crossword puzzle, and it was considered ok to work on it in lieu o

I went to a school with no letter grades, and skipped a year. Our school used to copy the nyt crossword puzzle, and it was considered ok to work on it in lieu of paying attention. Some teachers would simply tell me not to bother showing up, and I managed to get credit for a number of classes without going by simply convincing my teachers that I'd read the book and understood the material. For autodidactic people such as the myself and presumably the author, this was great. Many of my classmates required more structured experiences, and I don't think this model works for most people. Abolishing high school is nice for the people who read hacker news, but probably wouldn't work for the vast majority of students