Are we about to create more school “dumping grounds” for students and staff?

With action pending in both houses of the Kentucky legislature to create more alternative schools and maybe raise the minimum dropout age to 18 as a way to fight high dropout rates, recent comments from Education Commissioner Terry Holliday provide a warning that just creating these schools isn’t enough.

Holliday told Ryan Alessi at cn2 on Monday that the state needs a law to prevent alternative schools from just becoming dumping grounds for students and even teachers.

Apparently, Holliday has seen the evidence of this problem already, but he feels powerless to act.

Well, somebody better act, especially if we are going to create a lot more potential for abuse, which would most definitely include the taxpayer, if all we wind up doing is creating age 18 dropouts instead of age 16 ones.