SOLUTIONS TO RESOLVING AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT EPIDEMICS: Attn: Willie Thompson Dear friend... Since you were on CNN, let's get hour interview there & explain directly our ideas to masses! Im interested in what you do, I read your story on CNN... Dont waste your time bringing students to HS without offering them sports & trade/vocation training. Trust me, most of them will never attend college, not even for one credit hour of PE. Trust me, my school solution project is the key to resolving our educational problems. Here, pathetic CPS chicago public schools focus on college bound students and students are forced to learn bunch of BS they'll never need in their lifetimes. I suggest dividing senior year into two, thus student will have more time for herself/himself to decide what he/she wants to do next. But this way they are more certain to graduate from high schools & get state funding for whatever trade they choose starting their junior year. I wish I had one more year of HS. After graduation I thought I was the king, I though everybody will jump on the wagon behind me to work for them, wow, was I wrong. I must have been dreaming. Reality is much different. Dont waste your time forcing students who legally dont have to return to school without incentives. If my ideas work, give credit where credit is due! Check out my ideas: encyclopediasupreme.org/Bdegree deals with high schools and college L-Degree for high school students, 10+ CR's. Degree is good for anybody. If HS graduate has good GPA he gets vouchers, with no expiration for college but having college classes during HS is total stupidity, non-sense, so much work during 4 years, then you graduate, then education ends without dough, I believe american edu system is hypocritical, going nowhere, new secretary of education Arnie Duncan, I know him, is absolute lowlife who wants to make school days longer, but how will that enhance education or keep students interested even in the short term?! Sincerely/Seriously: Mr. Jan Lary Lubek you can give copies to c/c truant officers & associates, but explain it well first, dont forget these are school solutions, my intellectual property