I attended two high schools, a public high school and a christian high school. Public school was an absolute joke. They offered CP classes, honors classes, and AP classes. A mentally handicapped sheep could have passed CP classes. I was friends with kids who were far below average intelligence ( sub 20 on the act if that means anything to you), and passed CP classes with relative ease. Honors classes weren''t really any different. An extra paper or two per semester and a slightly faster pace than CP classes. AP was completely different but just about as shitty. In case you don''t know, AP stands for advanced placement and is supposed to be a college class. At the end of the semester you take an AP test, and depending on how well you do on it you can get some college credit. But at the school I went to it basically meant an hour and a half of a teacher reading slides and assigning a crazy amount of busy work.calmyourtits wrote:Lol, high schools are getting seriously shitty.I don''t know if its like this everywhere, but at least at US colleges the first year or two are basically review of high school.
How was your high school, looking back at it now? As in, the quality of it.
The Christian school was 10x better. We aren''t talking tiny church school that indoctrinates students with the whole earth is only 6000 years old shit, but an actual school. The classes were smaller( 12-16 students) and and quality of teaching was better. Teachers were much more accessible and taught at a pace customized to the class. I felt like I actually learned some stuff there. It was all extremely easy for me, but that''s because I come from an extremely intelligent family and while I''m not trying to toot my own horn I am much smarter than the average American student.
I''m sure that there are some Public schools that are decent and from what I''ve heard most private schools aren''t really any better. American high school education is just trash. Social studies is an absolute waste of time. It''s just memorizing facts so that you can forget them. If you ever need to know that information you can just use Google. English is a waste of time. Most students enter college not knowing how to site sources or piece together five paragraphs into an essay without having many many spelling and grammar errors and not reading coherently. There are way to many classes that are just flat out stupid that actually count for credit such as agricultural science, college readiness, and personal finance. Foreign launguges are laughable. You cannot learn a foreign language in a class room in two semesters. I passed Spanish 1 and 2 with A''s and I can''t even count to 13 or conjugate a verb. Cheating is rampant and teachers are too lazy and/or don''t care enough to punish it. There is so much wasted time. Why can a college professor teach a course in 40 hours but it takes a high school teacher over 4 times as long to teach the same course?
tl:dr high school was a waste of time