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0 pointsburgerbrain15y ago0 comments

I would object to the mere suggestion that a "highschool" could possibly turn out even physics or mathematics undergrads. The best you're going to do is end up with a situation where realisticly all you've done is had the students skip highschool and go straight to college.

"Highschool" implies a lot more than just "that place you went to for the last 4 years of a 12 year education"; or perhaps more accurately: "college" implies a lot more than just "that place you went to after highschool".

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Lost_BiomedE15y ago· 1 in thread

"...realisticly all you've done is had the students skip highschool and go straight to college."

I regret not doing this. I have talked to a couple people who have done it by taking community college classes part-time and transferring into state full-time.

I think the rest of the world's model is better than what we do. Separate those that will learn to work with their hands and those that will work with their mind and train them respectively in high-school.

burgerbrainOP15y ago

I had the benefit of being able to take a 50/50 mix of highschool classes, and classes at the local branch of my state college.

Highly recommended in situations where it is at all possible, and it makes a ton of sense, since there is often so much overlap between the last two years of the one and the first year of so of the other.

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