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Originally posted by tabs
It's better than not having one for sure...what kind of loser can't get a HS diploma these days...if your warm and breathing they pass em out to ya. I worked as a sub-teacher at the HS level as a part-time job. I was a fly on the wall so to speak and could observe things first hand in a coupla of my local districts. One thing it didn't make much difference between a good school and a poor school, they were about the same. I had classes where 70 to 80 % were getting D's and F's. Write a coherent sentence or paragraph haaa....At lunch one day I heard the math teachers talking about how the district I was working in is going to get a big surprise because about 70% of the kids couldn't pass Algebra. In CA passing Algebra is a requirment for graduation. I asked a counselor at one paticular HS what % of Freshmen don't graduate..he said about 60%.
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If I knew then what I know now, I would have taked my GED Freshman year and gotten out of HS all together. What a waste of time, college likewise. If I wanted to hear an ******* talk all day, I'd just as soon as eat a lot of refried beans and fart a lot.
While this approach won't work for everyone in all professions, I've probably taught myself 100 times the useful and useless knowledge that they impart in high school just by reading on my own. High school (with the exception of AP math and science classes) was a moot point by the time I arrived.
JCM