Family Tradition gone mainstream

I was just reading this NY Times article about how it really makes more sense to skip directly from 10th grade to community college and couldn't help think of what seems to be some sort of family tradition. I thought this might be a good forum for sharing. I have not actually finished the article, so hopefully it's not too weird:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/magazine/28FOB-wwln-t.html