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Originally posted by Jims5543
Do you need it for a lifetime?
Sound mean? Its the truth. A 19 y/o I have working for me described the public high school scene. He was is in a crappy math class. The teacher spends most of his time trying to shut the kids up who couldnt give a crap about being there rather than actually teaching. In some cases as he has attempted to detain unruly 18-20 year olds they shove him out of their way and leave the class.
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So true. On a given school day, I received maybe 2 hours of instruction. Between 15 minutes to settle the kids down, 10 minutes of them being rowdy towards the end of class, time to walk between classes, breaks, lunch, etc. there was no time to learn anything.
I skipped high school completely and did home school. I got the books, taught myself, took the tests. (Went to the local college for math, that's hard to teach yourself)
9th grade with an almost identical curriculum to the local HS took me two months working about 1-1.5 hours per day. I finished the entire thing in two years, working a couple hours a day, and had almost 2 full semesters worth of college completed by the time I was 16.
I don't know what I'll ever do with my kids, you need to go to school for the social experience, but I've always seen it as such a huge time waster. Private school maybe.