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0 pointshellbannedguy5y ago0 comments

If I could have skipped high school, and went straight to a community college, my life might have been different?

I remember learning everything I should have in high school in 1 semester at a CC.

Plus--I found high school painful, and their was so much wasted time.

I was expected to work while going to high school, and remember thinking there's got to be a better way. In school all day felt like baby sitting, rather than learning.

I went to three high schools. Two were public, and one private.

All a bit different. The private one had way too many kids on drugs.

If anyone has a responsible kid who is thinking about dropping out, certain schools allow kids to go to CC early.

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dnndev5y ago

High school should completely be optional. Those who want to go will benefit from it and those who don’t won’t be there to simply make trouble.

Move the high school teachers to middle school and elementary for smaller classes.

Aerroon5y ago

>I remember learning everything I should have in high school in 1 semester at a CC.

But maybe the reason you could do that is because you had already studied this before. When I look back on school work, they look trivial. Even things that I've forgotten look trivial.

Subjects like mathematics (in high school and earlier) are about experience. Sure, explaining hope to calculate the area of a triangle is very easy, but if your only experience with it is having it explained to you and using it once, then you'll probably forget how to do it or the relation it has to the area of a rectangle. We do the trivial stuff so much in school that you get an instinctual feeling for it. I never felt as comfortable with any of the math I learned in college than I did with earlier topics. I suspect it's because I never got to build up that feel for it.

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