Washington State has had a program called Running Start for years. You can graduate high school with your Associates degree, and it costs you nothing. You're no

Washington State has had a program called Running Start for years. You can graduate high school with your Associates degree, and it costs you nothing. You're now 2 years ahead of your class. But guess what, that FTE (Full Time Enrolled) money is diverted from the high school to the college. So guess which school doesn't promote Running Start... Oh and I forgot about the "Skills Center" we had nearby, which actually had all the really cool classes that I didn't know we could take. There were actual game programming classes, electronics, and lots of vocational training, stuff that I didn't know you could take in high school. We got keyboarding classes and photography as the closest thing to any kind of computer classes. The only time students got to go over there is when they were "problematic," students with bad grades. So it ended up with this reputation. Again, the student funding ends up getting diverted away from the high school (as it should, IMO).