RM> RM> But no exit exams and no national test....
RM> 
RM> RM> SOME quality control... If SOME quality control is a good
RM> RM> thing, why is MORE necessarily a bad thing?
RM> 
RM> MS>You can soon end up illustrating the "law of diminishing returns".
RM> MS>Spending increasingly more money or time on quality control pays 
RM> MS>big dividends for the first few dollars (or hours), but then 
RM> MS>rapidly produces less return.
RM> 
RM> You're ASSuming that we're dealing with a certain type of
RM> curve, AND that we're already at the peak of the curve?  
RM> That's assuming a great deal....
    I'm assuming that your state has some kind of don't-pass-don't-graduate 
"competency test" for HS graduation, like North Carolina does.
    If you want to cut down on ill-qualified graduates, raising the _state_ 
standards on that competency test would be a lot more cost-effective than 
requiring a federal competency test in addition to the state one.
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