+310 Regular school should end at grade eight, because by then you've learned all of the math and reading that you'll really ever need. Highschool should be more focused preparing you for real life instead of all that chemistry and algebra nonsense, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

W-WHAT? NO PHYSICS? BLASPHEMY!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

All of the classes you're required to take in highschool are kind of a waste of time.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

cough SOCIAL STUDIES cough cough cough

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't think that all of them are. If you were getting open heart surgery, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want someone with an 8th grade education preforming it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Last I knew most heart surgeons don't come straight from High school like the poster is talking about.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well that's what you go to college for. You wouldn't want someone with a basic highshool education performing surgery either..

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Why would anyone upvote this stupidity?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Exactly what I was thinking.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My favourite subject is religion. I think we need it, it's not a waste of time.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I go to public school.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I go to a catholic school. So it's the norm pour moi.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Religion is your favorite subject? Good luck in the real world cause praying isn't going to do SHIT!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I was gonna go apeshit on you, but then I was like "OH! It's dempsey!"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Hahah, Hebrew Scriptures is my favorite class. I have this fantastic teacher. She's all sarcastic and spends half the class telling us about her day. It's amazing.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

my religion tacher is a pushover. he gave us every single question on the exa, two weeks before, AND THE ANSWERS. I got a 98.5.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes, must be very hard to remember who made up a bullshit story and who killed who cause GOD told him..mhm yep.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I go to Catholic school as well, it's my joke class... 98 average and I don't even put a fraction of the effort I put into other classes...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I completely agree with this post, because I think social studies falls into the category of preparing for real life.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But, depending on what you're going to do with your life, all of the subjects can. If you want to be a translator or travel, it might be smart to take an extra language. If you want to become a carpenter, you might not need it as much. So, isn't it most logical to give people a chance to try everything?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Math is not totally pointless. If you want a good job, chances are you'll be using higher level math sometime.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I was in Algebra 1 in seventh grade. The last grade where I learned useful math was fifth, when I learned long division, which I actually use from time to time.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Haha, when I go shopping with one of my friends, she actually uses proportions to find out how much things that are on sale cost.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This sounds a lot like socialism to me...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

my school ends at 8th grade IN FACT my school system goes like THIS Kindargarden through 4th 5th through 6th and 7th through 8th and then 9th through 12th. 4 schools not counting pre-K

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What do you mean it ends in 8th grade? No offense, but you pretty obviously just said that there's 9th through 12th.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think the school that he/she attends goes up to 8th grade. My old school went from Pre-K all the way up to 8th. It was both a middle and elementary school. Then, when you finish 8th, you go to a high school.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Ohhhhh :] Isn't it like that at most schools?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm not sure, districts are different. I went to a different school that just went up to 5th grade, also one that went up to just fourth grade, then another school that goes up to 6th grade. o_O

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's what college is for.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

i was just thinking that haha, i was gonna post that...but you beat me to it(:

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No God pleas no. I did not know anything about anything at the end of eighth grade, and I had a 4.0 throghout middle school. If school ended at eighth grade the results would be disastrous. Jobs in the modern world are requiring more and more education across the board, not less.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't mean just throw kids into the world after eighth grade. Highschool would still exist, just tailored to the kind of classes that you as an individual think you'll most likely need to start the rest of your life.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I agree, it's important to know sociAl studies to some extent, but will knowing the causes of the civil war help you get a job as a psychologist?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The required classes that I need to take at my school are RIDICULOUS. I want to get a job in the CIA, but I have to take Music Appreciation, Ceramics, and Calculus? lolwut

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I wish they would go more in depth on how to balance a check book, all the finical stuff. Work on speeches,etc

by Anonymous 12 years ago

School is just fine the way it is. There are a lot of important things you learn in grades 9 - 12. Learning about life is something you have to do on your own, you can't be taught. Imagine if teachers taught you about life based on their own personal beliefs. You'd be confused and not be able to think for yourself.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I had no idea what I wanted to do with the rest of my life at the end of middle school.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You had no interests or preferences? I find that hard to believe.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Interests and preferences change, especially during adolescence. I don't think a young teenager should be required to chose his or her career path at such an early age.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't think you're quite understanding what I'm saying. You're not throwing an eighth grader into college. It's still highschool, just with a little more freedom to make it what you're more interested in learning.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I do understand what you're saying, but i still think that someone so young would be responsible enough to make those types of decisions. At the very least there should be a general studies schedule for those students who haven't quite found what they are interested in.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If you're uninterested in education, or don't know which route you'd like to take, sure, take the basic courses. For those who know what they're interested in should be able to follow that path and start learning as soon as possible.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

In my state a law was recently passed requiring students to take 4 years of math and of science. That means every high school student is required to take at least Pre-Calculus and at least one advanced science class (adv. physics, adv. bio, or adv.chem). Such stringent laws on the requirements of every students' education doesn't allow them to get the education that they need for THEIR lives. Let's face it, this generation of parents are FAILING to teach their children how to eat healthy, cook, clean, manage their money, or how to live on their own at all. I'd love to see schools teaching children the chemistry behind why you don't throw water on a grease fire, place glass jars of liquid in the freezer, or mix cleaning solutions when you're scrubbing the shower. I'd love to see schools teaching children the math that allows them to make better financial decisions, such as the difference between this interest rate on a 10 year loan versus that interest rate on a 30 year loan.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

YES! That's what i think too! And also like what OP is saying; we need to have our schooling more tailored to us and what we are going to do in life (but maybe with a fallback or 2). I really think they just need to change the school system entirely (or just a lot). And also, they should teach foreign languages and things that are harder to learn later in life in elementary school, and just like continue it as the years go by (just basics; like i live in Texas, so it would be a good idea to learn basic Spanish (but i'm smart and decided to take French instead -.- i wish i could go back and take Spanish)) Yeah... rant over, lol.

by Anonymous 12 years ago