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Subject: The progression of education
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Perhaps you do not notice this, but the increased amount of stress and pressure to achieve academically has increased phenominally over the years. My brother is currently learning the basics of calculus, and he has barely completed his grade ten year. I recall my high school years..... By grade nine, my father already had trouble helping me in Math, let alone once I reached grade twelve. In our school, we pushed 2-4 hours of homework a night, and were swamped by strict absence policies. If you talk with anyone over thirty, they will bluntly say that school life was alot simpler back in the day. Teachers push their students to work for careers in the higher reaches of society, such as law, medicine, or politics. Is there any room left for students who wish to work in the trades? What has become of our world. Teenagers are deprived of living a normal life, controlled by the lengthening constraint of education. The outcome of this? Give it a generation, you'll see the negative results.

  • 02.10.2005 10:15 PM PDT
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Interesting view....
More that is discovered, more to learn.
The more education we recieve, the more educated we will be about our world. Hopefully with more education we can make wiser decisions. "Deprived of living a normal life." Tired of homework? So am I. If there is anything that is depriving me of living a "normal" life, however, it is Halo 2 and other video games. I play about 5 hours of it a day just cause I like playing it so much. The more free time I would have, the more I would play it.

I agree it will be quite the experience to see the younger generation as adults, only time will tell...

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  • 02.10.2005 10:29 PM PDT
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Yeah it has, I'm 22 now, and I can remember in the 5th grade being forced to choose a career........A CAREER....I was like 11 yrs old wtf????

  • 02.10.2005 11:25 PM PDT
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for anyone whos still in school:

believe me its NOT the end of the world if your crap at school; in fact its usually the opposite. do what you want, drop out or whatever, i mean who needs calculus?????

  • 02.11.2005 4:03 AM PDT

Posted by: kewlkat
...i mean who needs calculus?????

Um, I do.

  • 02.11.2005 4:06 AM PDT

i mean who needs calculus?????
Scientists, engineers, mathematicians...

  • 02.11.2005 4:20 AM PDT

Posted by: goweb
i mean who needs calculus?????
Scientists, engineers, mathematicians...

:)

  • 02.11.2005 4:27 AM PDT
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i hate the idea of people asking you "what is your career going to be?"
its stupid to pick what your going to do for the rest of your life, at such a young age. i have no flipping clue what im going to do for the rest of my life. and people say that teenagers my age(16) are irresponsible, but we have to pick what we want to be ?
it makes no sense

  • 02.11.2005 6:36 AM PDT

Posted by: CRASH and BURN
i hate the idea of people asking you "what is your career going to be?"
its stupid to pick what your going to do for the rest of your life, at such a young age. i have no flipping clue what im going to do for the rest of my life. and people say that teenagers my age(16) are irresponsible, but we have to pick what we want to be ?
it makes no sense

Well, if you are going to college, you should know what you want to do with the rest of your life by the age of 16, I knew at 15. If you are going to college at the age of 18, you would have to apply to colleges at the age of 17. If you are applying by the age of 17, you should know what you want to do by the age of 16. Just my opinion.

  • 02.11.2005 6:47 AM PDT
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It is perfectly ok to pass but inexcusable to fail. Even if it is what they are choosing.

"If you are a nothing now you will be a nobody in future."

This was my high school's motto.

  • 02.11.2005 7:15 AM PDT
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progression? education? in the same sentence? what the hell...

  • 02.11.2005 7:27 AM PDT

and people say that teenagers my age(16) are irresponsible
You are.

Damn kids ;-)

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  • 02.11.2005 7:33 AM PDT
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Posted by: goweb
and people say that teenagers my age(16) are irresponsible
You are.

Damn kids ;-)


Pssshh. Its not like we set fire to stuff all the time or anything.

  • 02.11.2005 8:30 AM PDT
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If you study history at uni you dant have to make your mind up yet. Or languages. Or English. Or any writing course like that. Ok you cant be a doctor or a scientist or anything. But there is no set career afterwards, and it is useful for many (if you want journalism, history is better than media studies). Hey I am 18 at uni, and have no clue where my life is going afterwards.

  • 02.11.2005 8:45 AM PDT
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I haven't been to school for the week. Kicks ass. Being sick and all.

  • 02.11.2005 9:33 AM PDT
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During my high school years, I was forced to attend every day of the year. Under the tyrannical rule of our principal, all sick days, vacations, and weather related absences were unexcusable. Any student that missed school for any of these reasons was bluntly given a zero for all assignments, without any chance to make them up. Teachers, they get lazier with time.

  • 02.11.2005 3:49 PM PDT