Actually if your willing to bust your ass they are not all that hard to get, but most people don't last.
It's a positive for a kid to drop out of HS? That's whats going to make him a good family man? Give me a break.
If you have a wife and child to support getting a job helps....he can always take GED his he wishes. Many high schools have work programs. Seniors work to earn credit. If a student has no intention of going to college learning a vocation is proper. If inner city schools put more vocational programs in place at least you would have dropouts with some skills, or many would stay in school I would argue going to work on the North Slope is a fine education.
Loathsome she is, fearsome no. The jig is up on Palin. She'll be a mere footnote to history. She is NOT smart, she incredibly ambitious, an ambition which far outstrips her skills to navigate where she has found herself, an ambition which is untempered by ethics and essential morals.