Making it sound more like jail

A coalition of advocacy groups got a lot of media attention Wednesday for pledging to help kids by changing the law that forces them to stay in school until age sixteen so that it forces them to stay in school until age eighteen.

Maybe someone could suggest they might let the kids who want to drop out just pay a fine and do community service instead.

Seriously, Kentucky's dropout problem isn't going anywhere until we raise standards in middle school to keep kids engaged in the process at the point when too many of them get behind.