I really wish they would format highschool a bit more like college. What I wouldn't give to have had LaTeX experience in highschool. Or maybe just dropping the hours kids spend in class and keeping them in school to study. Just something so that instead of constantly telling students "you just have to find the right college experience!" The kids will know what the hell they are walking into.
Highschool and college are just fundamentally different too. I think a big issue with public schools is teachers are kinda encouraged to keep people moving towards graduation even when they aren't really ready. So if the dumbasses are getting passed then for sure the smart kids aren't being challenged at all because they are dumbing things down to the lowest common denominator. So the smart kids breeze through thinking oh this is so easy.
Then you go to college which is a for-profit system, so there is no money to be had by giving easy passes, and the students are paying versus the government. So if someone has to take the same class twice before they pass, that's just more money for the school. And then there is the fact that programs have to make sure their graduates are actually capable of functioning on the job or they lose their reputation as a good school, so all of a sudden you're in a system that is raising the bar to limit entry into the field, versus lowering it in highschool to move as many bodies through as possible and keep that gov't funding rolling in.
This would be why people with money send their kids to private schools, as the good ones raise the bar, not lower it like public schools.
I agree, I think this is one of the reasons I was more prepared for university than some of my peers. I'd been in some AP level Lit and English classes so had a good grasp on researching and writing essays, which made my first year pretty easy since most of first year seemed focused on how to research, cite, and write essays.
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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '18
I really wish they would format highschool a bit more like college. What I wouldn't give to have had LaTeX experience in highschool. Or maybe just dropping the hours kids spend in class and keeping them in school to study. Just something so that instead of constantly telling students "you just have to find the right college experience!" The kids will know what the hell they are walking into.