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Subject: High School should be abolished.

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"But I do not think we're invincible"

lol

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.

  • 01.07.2013 8:40 PM PDT

First time here? I love you.

Been here before? I still love you.

It allows you to develop socialization skills and to gain interests that help you decide your life goals, while simultaneously preparing you for college.

  • 01.07.2013 8:45 PM PDT

I just wished we still lived in the "Land of Opportunity". This is what you have after High School

-College
-Military
-Live Lowly


Posted by: UberLevi
It allows you to develop socialization skills and to gain interests that help you decide your life goals, while simultaneously preparing you for college.


Did neither of these for me. I would have been a lot better off skipping High School and working and gaining actual life experience in those four years.

[Edited on 01.07.2013 8:47 PM PST]

  • 01.07.2013 8:46 PM PDT

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Seriously? do you know how many people would love to have an education? Because the alternative of high school is a job. Which sounds fun, but isn't.

And the majority of people don't use what they learned in high school because they didn't retain the information.

That said, high school for me was just a rehash of middle school.

  • 01.07.2013 8:51 PM PDT

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