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DixieOfDeKalbCounty July 18th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
havent they ever heard of terminating early over in Utah? where im from if you have all your credits you can just not come in or they leave blank spots in your schedule, but you cant take Sr classes your Jr year so you cant skip an entire year. I dont rly think colleges like early term though.
joscobo July 18th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
@trajan74 “It is true that Republicans hear “cut education” they cum. When they hear “cut the police” or the military budget they go into convulsions and seizures.” ~ That sums it up perfectly. Well said.
lowenklee July 18th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
/shrug, the american public education system sucks…if you’ve got the credits to graduate junior year then do so. get into college and move on. for me it’s more about changing the culture than anything else. as it stands, highschool is mostly a waste of time.
LMA629 July 18th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
im 18 (almost 19) & even i think this is a bad idea. we don’t need 17 yr olds in college
videogamer002 July 18th, 2010 at 9:33 pm
I feel that we should have an option to take a 13th year if we WANT to. Like so we can take purely electives and have a year to do what WE want, NOT what the SCHOOL/GOV’T WANTS. Of course it’d be COMPLETELY optional.
CorisDavis913 July 18th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
I know so many people including myself who were beyond ready to be done with HS by year 12, a few of them did too.
FTWization July 18th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
its really hot when ana gets pissed and shakes her head
mevisface July 18th, 2010 at 11:30 pm
Some people are smart enough to skip a grade, so what is the difference.
mochalex July 18th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
I’m with Cenk on this one. Senior year was freaking awesome. I slacked so much and managed to get straight A’s. It was basically party year.
ccricers July 19th, 2010 at 12:47 am
A better idea I heard is one school district offering scholarships to high school students who can complete all their credits in three years (or within half of senior year, not sure) and with AP classes. That’s a better incentive I think.
SSCeles July 19th, 2010 at 12:47 am
You know? I’d love a 13th grade. I finished with 12 extra credits, but I really loved the school environment. I would have loved to stay another year just for kicks.
jxsilicon9 July 19th, 2010 at 1:40 am
It depends. If you want to be a scientist,engineer,etc then you need a college degree. If you want to be a welder then its another story.You’re definitely not getting close to senior management or even middle without a bachelors and/or masters.
duhCider July 19th, 2010 at 1:41 am
Cutting money on education will result in more people like Buttars getting elected.
AlchemyOtaku0922 July 19th, 2010 at 2:30 am
Yeah, that’s true, but also some people aren’t mature enough to move on to collage already when they’re only 16 or 17
Scarpsad July 19th, 2010 at 2:54 am
Actually it doesn’t sound like that bad an idea, but if you get all of you’re credits don’t you get to go to college any way no matter you’re age? I’m not sure how it works in the States but here in Canada we can do this way.
thinazzabird July 19th, 2010 at 3:02 am
The police are not the first line of the government, it’s the schools. High schools teach nothing about finances because the teachers union is infiltrated with neo-conservatives.
thinazzabird July 19th, 2010 at 3:20 am
The more poor at studying the people who go to colleges are the more those colleges will position themselves to exploit a predicted group of drop-outs. A school that means to fail some fails all.
7Rafe7 July 19th, 2010 at 3:27 am
i hate it when they experiment with the school body like theyre guinea pigs or something. although I have to admit all the seniors ive actually seen in school (its rare) they are usually just jacking around or coming to school to take just one class or use the gym
Blindeyeseesfar July 19th, 2010 at 3:42 am
Where I come from, we’ve got a year of preschool, 6 years of primary and then 5 years of high school… No problem.
ehrenyu July 19th, 2010 at 3:50 am
-sighs- Some of us love to learn. I applied to a public charter school in my sophomore year. For 11th and 12 the grades, I stayed in a dorm (with curfew rules etc) and went to a school predominantly full of teachers who went by Dr. It was amazing. I could have ’slacked’ off by not taking as many classes as I did, but I learned more about what I really liked to do and it wasn’t anything to do with Linear or Integral Calculus.
bruinlover09 July 19th, 2010 at 4:25 am
This reports show how out of touch many reporters are with the real world. Senior slump was existed when seniors lack off because they had been accepted by a college and believed they could slack off now. However, colleges are revoking acceptance letters if a h.s senior’s grades drop. Right now, an incoming freshman to UCLA or Berkeley needs to have 4.0 or higher with lots of volunteer work and extra-curricular activities.
TexasMom17 July 19th, 2010 at 4:33 am
Clarify…they do not make good college students right out of high school. I’ve been told repeatedly by teachers in colleges that the best students are the older students. They’re there because they WANT to be and they WANT to learn.
TexasMom17 July 19th, 2010 at 5:21 am
There are slackers that do so because they’re lazy and those that are bored or simply have NO idea the value of education…until they have to start supporting themselves. The lazy ones or ones perhaps those with low self-esteem and NO support group from home do NOT make good college students and will burn out easily in college…nor will they finish college until they’re older in age…seen it many many many times. 
Best of luck to you!
satbir129 July 19th, 2010 at 5:30 am
thats not true, i’ve been slacking in school since 10th grade. the only credits i needed after 10th grade were English and economics, both of which were a total waste of time since i learned nothing i didn’t already know. people don’t slack just because their lazy they slack because they can :-] I’m in college now and i have to say, it’s almost as easy as high school.
playfyte July 18th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
YNO, I think you are right. By senior year in Utah most seventeen year old girls have been married to their uncles for three years. As far as the Ultra right wing conservatives are concerned; they feel that the only education middle class kids should get is just enough to work in their factories. Just enough to handle boot camp when they send you off to die in one of their wars.