[Poofler]

It's not much of a monopoly. You can homeschool or send your kids to a private school. If you want a free education (yes, yes, your taxes pay for schools in part) government will give it to you. The monopoly part is in dictating the regulations competing schools must follow.

I never really looked at HS as four years of relevant learning. It just seems like a place to park immature kids who don't know what they want to do with their lives. I think enrolling 14 year olds in vocational programs is generally too young to get that specific. I honestly wouldn't get rid of HS. I'd probably make it a little more Euro (some countries anyway) and direct kids to different HSs based on aptitudes at 14. Liberal artsish HSs/Science Heavy HSs/etc.