(excerpt): What do we stand to lose when we make such radical changes? Our children's dangerous daily swim in the over-stimulating hormonal soup we now call high school, where the lowest cultural common denominators too often prevail.... The wasted time our children interminably spend transitioning--coming and going, changing and starting classes, standing in lines, waiting, waiting, waiting for something to start, something to happen.... Our children's sense of being anonymously factory-processed, instead of compellingly involved in their own highly-desired learning goals, outcomes, and futures.... Anger, rebellion, and desperation among too many students (and their teachers....) Pointless and harmful man-hours spent credentializing.... Proms.... Debilitating, expensive, space and energy-inefficient, exclusive competitive school sports systems which, themselves, create health and emotional problems, and primarily provide fodder for the sports industry.... Lost lives and liability suits from the inevitable violence arising from our contemporary culture's too many unnecessary school pressures.... Lost time for learning due to shootings, mercury, guns, drugs, viruses, terrorism, prank calls, snow (etc!)…. We stand to lose, in other words, nothing of any great value. And what do we stand to gain? A better education and a better future for our children and our country. (That is, everything. Priceless!)    more »