- NewRadical12
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Artes, Scientia, Veritas
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"But I do not think we're invincible"
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Anybody who thinks that the primary purpose of high school is to prepare students for their adult life with important and marketable life skills is deluded. It should be quite obvious to everybody that its purpose is to prepare students for a post-secondary education by giving them a broad knowledge base that makes students appealing to universities, colleges, trade school, etc.
The fact that most of what one learns in high school will not be used later in life is largely irrelevant. Colleges care about having students who excel in many academic areas, and students with proficiency in one area but no skill in others will remain unappealing to them regardless of changes in high school curricula. The fact is that most college students change their major and career plan at least once during their university career, and high schools failing to equip them with a knowledge base that enables them to do so would be inadequate. Redesigning high school to cater to the small minority of student who can accurately predict their future educational and career paths while forsaking the vast majority who are understandably ambivalent about their future is simply selfish.
In conclusion, stop whining.