Senator Wants To Make Senior Year Optional - Bad Idea?

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[craigsbc]

Yeah...it's true that by the end of my junior year I had all of the necessary credits to graduate. But because I had no "required" classes to fit into my schedule senior year, it allowed me to choose classes that I was interested in; things I actually WANTED to learn about. I took some difficult subjects that last year, and ended up with the best grade point average of any year in high school...schools should look at offering more varied subjects, not axe senior year.

[MrTommyjackson]

This is the worst idea ever. People here are dumb enough already...

[PSSCworkspace]

@jaylivinlifeful You're a perfect example. You can't spell! Who is the idiot?

[123FishCrazy]

I have an idea.

How about we start cutting the paychecks of all these higher up government officials instead of cutting the education that EVERY American should have?

[sgmvids]

I am so with Cenk on this one. This was posted a little over a year ago, during my senior year, and I wouldn't trade it for all the money in the world. Yes, I stressed out the first semester and then slacked off the second half, but isn't that what it's all about? Everyone's entitled to their opinion, of course, but I wouldn't want future graduating classes to be deprived of that. SCHOOL IS COOL, I'm in a college program now, and afterward I'm going for my degrees. I value education; I admit it.

[sirbestnameever]

we do it in england were you stay at the school to do A Levels and alot of people stay

[cobcon]

@BrandonSchleifer yeah as long as the facts are actually facts.............

[David12King]

I didn't even go through Senior year. I had all my credits in Junior year and left with a diploma.

[GnosticQuasar]

12th grade should be optional. A lot of the kids who want to go to a 4-year school are there because they need the extra credit hours to get into college; the rest of the kids are just there because they have to be. They're not really learning anything that they actually need to succeed. Let them move on with their lives, learning a trade and whatnot.

[bbphnix]

in Romania, only classes from 1 to 10 are compulsory, the 11 and 12th are optional;

the system was in place when I was a highschool student and I was not negatively afected by it at all

[BrandonSchleifer]

We talked about creationism in my high school. We learn about Egyptian, Greek, Nordic, Jewish/Christian, and First Nations creation myths, then we learned about Australopithecus Africanis, and its journey across Africa on the path to becoming Homo Sapien. But you have to learn it all; not just one creation myth. Learn a bunch of creation myths, and evolution, then let the children decide based on all the facts.