: This is a great point you are making actually. I think it is very telling of what the real agendas of the public school system are and aren't. I wish to ellaborate on it for a bit. : Observation: There's no 25 year olds attending public highschool - not ONE.
: Question: Why the hell not?
Of course there are such students, but after age 21, they have to pay some amount of tuition, and attend classes at night. I suppose that's so they can work during the day, or so they can't provide the underclassmen with alcohol or some such thing. These students are sometimes the girls who had to drop out after dropping a child, the boys who figured they had factory jobs waiting for them as soon as they dropped out, or perhaps like the fellow from my previous post who just weren't bright enough to learn it for free the first time. Successfully completing these courses results in being awarded a GED, a (high school) Graduate Equivalency Diploma. But, from speaking to some of the teachers who teach this stuff at night, it's anything but the equivalent of a high school diploma. Teaching is the equivalent of strapping a bib on a baby, and spoon-feeding it until it becomes fussy or starts vomiting. Learning often means putting your head on the desk an taking a long nap until it's time to leave, meanwhile marking off time until the semster ends, like a convict counting down the days until his release. Even the US military, which requires a high school diploma from all recruits, will not accept a GED in its place. (But, in recent years, that requirement has been relaxed because there weren't enough recruits, but that's another discussion.)
I've gotten off track here, but I agree that a high school diploma is worthless, and I add that it would be worth more if not everyone who put in 12 years of time received one.
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