Should kids be able to graduate after 10th grade?

10th grade atricle.

WTF. NH people are saying HS kids should be ready for collage by 16, by shaving off their last 2 years of HS. What the hell kind of shit is that, if they do some how implement it, I believe that would not be fair for the rest of us who did do those 2 years. I'm not really bothered by these kinds of things, but I just thought I would. FAKKU's thoughts on this?

noob move: Damns no thoughts yet?

I saw that on Yahoo's home page. It's stupid. Professors say in college that they don't even think 18 year olds are ready for college, what the hell kind of average 16 year old is ready for college?

[size=10]I'll go with the last option, although I think they should just go through with** all two years. Trust me, I wanted to leave school way before High School came around (By that I mean I wanted to leave back when I was in middle school) but decided to wait. Lol, even if I did leave, where would I have gone from there?[/h]

Ziggy beat me to it. 16 just isn't mature enough. After seeing the idiots that graduated after my class. I think we should increase schooling to more days a year and more years before they can graduated.

right on!
some kids do not even give a crap about education anymore.

edit: what about the student holidays?! D:

Hell no. Kids are stupid enough these days. If you ask me, they should increase High School by another year. The schools are trying to cram too much stuff they leave important things out.

Bring back Grade 13!

Sixteen year old girls in my college classes? Heh heh heh, alright. I like where this is going.

Also, they could only go on to a community college or a tech school.


3rd option.

lol.

I agree that some students should be allowed to graduate after 10th grade. The select few I am referring to are the IB students. The IB program(International Baccaularate) is an advance course similar to Advanced Placement(AP) however, the difficulty and demands for the course are so advanced that should one receive the IB diploma, that person would've completed an equivalent to 20-30 hours of college. Now I went through the IB program, and my sophomore year I was learning things a sophomore in collage learned. How did I know? I asked someone for their Chem Lab report to use a point of reference for my own. The paper was laughable, standard procedure(Hypothesis, procedure, materials, data, conclusion) the paper had no calculations made, the conclusion listed no margin for error, nor did it calculate the percentage of error of the Data, data tables? What data tables? What about the whole +/- 1 uncertainty I had to somehow understand the concept of? The whole thing was shit! If someone at the collegiate level was producing something so low in quality, why shouldn't I, who gave eons more effort towards my report and received a mediocre 77(1,2,2,1 in IB grading) to my friends 89, should be admitted immediately. My only reward in going through that damn program was that it prepared me for College so well, the assignments were a breeze.

Basically, some people should be given exception. The Average sophomore graduate, does not meet the requirements, but some people are just too faf ahead to be stuck going through 2 more years of advanced college prep.

In my school, if you didn't know the word "irony", you didn't deserve to be in school.

You're not smart, and the people around are even more stupid from the way you're describing it.

In my experience, this kind of statement is never uttered unless to prove its own inaccuracy.

Yes, I do believe that kids can graduate earlier, but only the exceptionally smart and if their local educational system allows such advancement.

I started college at 16 <.<

oh wait Quebec school system

this is what i think..
kids who are smart enough should just graduate and go to college
well good for them and congratz to the future for having such smart people! :]

kids who do not give a shit about school should just drop out and stop wasting funds and start making our fries or ask us "paper or plastic"
as their way of getting income paying us back. :3

wait. i agree.
arent those kids too inexpericenced about the world to be moving on to college at such an early age?
*cough cough* 16-18 year old teengirls.. sounds fun.

It's true that advanced high school students will learn the same stuff as average college students, but there's really no reason to go to college early unless you run out of high school classes to take. I think most college students haven't completed Integral Calculus, or even Different Calculus when they start college, but just because you finish pre-calc doesn't mean you need to jump to college because you now are mathematically qualified. High school is generally cheaper, and you can just use the calculus from high school to place out of Calc I/II in college. Money is saved, and we don't have to worry about whether 16 year-olds are mature enough to go to class and do their assignments when no one is watching and there is generally no immediate penalty for skipping.

People also go on about how CLASS X is college level without really considering: generally this refers to an average college student at an ok, but not great school. If you are an above average high school student, you probably aim to be an above average college student, so instead of jumping into college when you have the knowledge of an average college student, you can wait til 12th grade and graduate with the knowledge of an above average college student and be competitive in better programs.

Ha Ha... Canada.

The United States school system is more interested in pushing people through graduation than actually educating anyone. Really, I've tested it personally. My Sophmore year of high school, I stopped doing jack shit. Administrators and teachers, for the most part, will fall over themselves "accomidating" you. Becaus of that, while I didn't do anything I didn't feel like doing, and was completely honest that I wasn't going to do it and had no reason other than not wanting to, I graduated high school. A month and a half early. Our education system is a joke unless you really work to get something out of it anyway.

No freaking way!

I saw something wrong in the article:



Outside the US, kids may be ready for college at 16, but outside the US, kids do a lot better on standardized tests. They're ready for college at 16 because they're smarter by the time they're 16. Well, maybe not smarter, just better prepared and better educated. America would have to change its entire educational system first, in order to expect the same results that other countries experience.

About this idea of skipping the last two years of high school, would every person who passed the tests be able to graduated high school, whether they went to college or not? I know a few people, personally, who would have just graduated and not gone to college, if given the choice. Do we really want 16-year-olds to be out on the streets on the time (in cars or otherwise)? Would they spend their time working? That'd just take more hours away from older people who need the money more. I'm guessing they would party a lot. For me, 16-year-olds partying after school and on the weekends is more than enough. I don't want kids being able to party twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.