I think high school is an awful babysitter for older children. I think high school is largely rehashed things from middle school with some electives thrown in to make the experience somewhat tolerable. High school is a way of delaying people from entering the workforce while forcing them into a box that makes colleges and testing companies lots of money at the expense of students finances and well being. High schools breed apathy and conformity whilst trying to establish a group of manager types to run the whole show. High schools should teach critical thinking, actual job skills, and not put students into boxes based on abstract test scores about how well their ESL students know English idioms. We need electricians, plumbers, nurses, and these are all fields that could be introduced in high school. We could offer more tech programs, even make them mandatory that way students can graduate with some kind of job skill besides filling out a resume with school clubs. This in turn could help the government by lessening the need for welfare, and that money could go back towards the schools.
I also think standardized tests need to be eliminated. My senior year of HS I had to take a Social Studies state test as one of many that determined if I graduated. Some of the stuff covered on this test was World Geography, a class I never took due to me living in California at the time and is normally offered to freshmen. They expected me to remember some random river names and statistics after if I did take the class, NOT REVIEWING IT FOR MORE THAN 2 YEARS.
Haha you have some passion behind what you think high school should be instead of what they are. I agree, they teach meaningless subjects that are soon forgotten instead of stuff that we can use daily when we graduate (paying bills, taxes, credit, cover letters, etc.)
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