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[QUOTE="Hoov50, post: 1455578, member: 1056"]
My next rant/statement is bleeding into the world of education in our country so if you aren't interested stop reading now.

The fact that the NCAA, full of bureaucratic idiots, somehow gets to judge the validity of high school coursework is asinine to begin with.  Even with the "Common Core Learning Standards" each state is essentially left on its own when it comes to what is done in terms of education.  How can a state like South Carolina (which for a long period of time, maybe even still allows anyone with a college degree in any subject to teach) be compared with a state like New York (where teachers are required to earn a Masters degree).  I am sure there are plenty of great and crappy teachers in each state, but I'd be willing to bet that teachers who went to college to become teachers are using different methods than teachers who went to college for other reasons.  My point being that coursework across this country is inherently different in both requirements and rigor and will continue to be different until there is a national week by week or day by day curriculum that every school district is required to follow.  This even holds true in a single high school.  How do we know that the 11th grade English class taught by two different teachers in the same high school is the same?  Even with a set curriculum teachers can approach topics and teach those topics in different ways.  My last point is, if we can't truly ensure that courses taken in different areas of our own country are the same how can the NCAA even attempt to judge courses from other countries?!

That's the end of my rant.
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