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Sativa_Rose posted...

WTGHookshot posted...

prince_leo posted...

most people I know remember things from high school. not the details, but they know the broad ideas

This.

And the people that don't tend to remember the stuff from high school tend to be the dregs of society, so they aren't exactly shining examples to use to prove "high school isn't important." From my perspective, those are shining examples to use to prove why paying attention in high school is important.

From personal experience, my friends who bitched about how high school was a waste were the ones who never took a single AP/IB class, flunked most of high school, and then got their GEDs. None of them went on to college, and they all work typical crappy unskilled labor type jobs now.

For the most part, the same. I do have one friend who found high school a waste and has a great job as a software engineer... But the reason high school was a waste for him is he knew what he wanted to do since he was 10. He started learning programming through textbooks in his spare time at age 12. So, high school didn't expose him to anything that he wasn't already exposing himself to. But for, say, one of my other friends who is an accountant now... He didn't know he wanted to be an accountant until partway into college. And he came to that conclusion because of his interest in math from high school.