Would you like to be a freshman entering high school in Sept.2023.

I feel so blessed to have been educated in a time when critical thinking was encouraged.

That's not the case today.

Todays' kids can't think.

I had a an English teacher in HS who used to give us a 10 question, fill in the blank test. That was in 1973. With 10 questions, more than 3 wrong was a failure.

My son met this teacher in his last year of teaching. I told my son to tell him that his father had him as a teacher and to ask him if he still gave the quiz (which he named after himself back in 1973). He said are you kidding? You can't give kids today a test like that. They'd never pass it.
 
I'd love to be an entering freshman today. That is the age of boy/girl discovery, it was so exciting. Having crushes on boys, slow dancing with boys for the first time at school dances, all the giggling for hours with friends. Even though I was in the advanced level classes my grades were the lowest of my life for freshman year, which as an adult I've read is normal because kids are working on social skills and peer relationships at that age.

I'm not sure how school shooters would affect me if I was young now. Pretty sure I'd be totally ignoring politics except whatever was forced on us in Civics class, which if I remember was a mixture of the constitution and the stock market (I think we had to choose a stock to follow for a couple weeks, the stock market newspaper page was rather intimidating).
 
Sassycakes said:
I wouldn't mind going back to high school if it wasn't a Catholic school taught by Nun's. I met a lot of wonderful friends when the Nun wasn't hitting you or throwing you on the floor.
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Been there. When you think about it, why did someone want to be a nun? Even if you held high ideals of helping or teaching people, why would you take that route?

I must admit that the nuns I had in the 1960s taught us so well that i felt prepared for all the schooling I attended following elementary school.
 
Where I grew up 9th grade was still in Jr. High! So, no Freshman class available. As for being in High School now, yep, I would love it IF I knew what I know now...that would be something...! Otherwise, no way I would do it over in today's schools...! By the way I was in the class of 1968...
 
Nathan said:
I didn't realize South Carolina had such issues. Maybe the tide will change there.
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Well that made me curious, so I googled it and poor South Carolina is really bad:

In order to determine the best school systems in America, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 32 key measures of quality and safety. The data set ranges from pupil-teacher ratio and dropout rate to median standardized-test scores.​
According to the report, South Carolina ranked among the bottom ten, coming in at #43 in the nation. North Carolina faired better, but still came in among the bottom half of the country at #33.​
 
Education today seems to be lacking in teaching students the full scope of life or developing the potentialities of the subconscious mind.
Recently, it's become in a deplorable state.

As I age, I notice a development of a thirst for knowledge and I want to study and learn as much as I can about philosophy, metaphysics,
art, physics, literature. I could go back but this time to really absorb everything instead of so much play! I would want to investigate all the possibilities. But, I wonder, could the educational system as it is today actually fulfill what I need? I already know my areas of interest and what I want to help create but it may be too far in the future. (my next life?)
My high school years were the happiest of my life! I had more fun than ANYONE! But this time, my love life would take a back seat (no pun)
and I would delve into absorbing as much knowledge as possible!
I'm kinda racing toward eternity but I could go forward or back, doesn't matter. I'm happy.
 
HoneyNut said:
Well that made me curious, so I googled it and poor South Carolina is really bad:

In order to determine the best school systems in America, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 32 key measures of quality and safety. The data set ranges from pupil-teacher ratio and dropout rate to median standardized-test scores.​
According to the report, South Carolina ranked among the bottom ten, coming in at #43 in the nation. North Carolina faired better, but still came in among the bottom half of the country at #33.​
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South Carolina is in the top half as far as gun ownership, though, and that's more important. :rolleyes:
 
HoneyNut said:
I'd love to be an entering freshman today. That is the age of boy/girl discovery, it was so exciting. Having crushes on boys, slow dancing with boys for the first time at school dances, all the giggling for hours with friends. Even though I was in the advanced level classes my grades were the lowest of my life for freshman year, which as an adult I've read is normal because kids are working on social skills and peer relationships at that age.

I'm not sure how school shooters would affect me if I was young now. Pretty sure I'd be totally ignoring politics except whatever was forced on us in Civics class, which if I remember was a mixture of the constitution and the stock market (I think we had to choose a stock to follow for a couple weeks, the stock market newspaper page was rather intimidating).
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The boy/girl discovery stuff?...that's done and dusted before high school these days. You don't get crushes, you ....how shall I put it... you pair. And 8 times out of 10, s/he owns you after that. For a few months, anyway. Some kids maintain their obsession for a whole term because it's fun to give schoolmates the impression that you're a bit of a psycho. In fact, that's a competitive field; who's the most psychotic psycho?

Also, sorry, they don't slow dance. I'm not sure what to call that thing they do while music plays, but it's for sure not slow. And when high school girls giggle, you can bet they're taunting some poor girl who doesn't know how to color her hair or doesn't own false eyelashes or who can't afford Miaou or A.W.A.K.E Mode.

And I doubt you'd be worried about shooters because you and your friends would have a plan. A shytti plan, but at least you'd have the secure feeling a group gives you right up until the shooting starts.

(just funnin')
 
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Gaer said:
Education today seems to be lacking in teaching students the full scope of life or developing the potentialities of the subconscious mind.
Recently, it's become in a deplorable state.
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Because nothing's more important these days than gender identity (as long as it's ambiguous) and inclusiveness.

I think there's so much going on in a kid's world they don't know what's really important, so they let someone tell them. Someone who's not their parent.
 
Murrmurr said:
Because nothing's more important these days than gender identity (as long as it's ambiguous) and inclusiveness.

I think there's so much going on in a kid's world they don't know what's really important, so they let someone tell them. Someone who's not their parent.
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So, How many genders are there exactly?
haha! This is ludicrous!
IMO, There are male and female.
Anything else is deviant and farcical.

Ah, I can see the little minds conjuring the
name-calling. Don't care. Same opinion.
 
Gaer said:
So, How many genders are there exactly?
haha! This is ludicrous!
IMO, There are male and female.
Anything else is deviant and farcical.

Ah, I can see the little minds conjuring the
name-calling. Don't care. Same opinion.
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Ah, so you'd be the School Weirdo. :p

They do still use the word weirdo, for what that's worth.

I'd do it over again if I could, just not in 2023. Maybe in 2033. That might be more interesting.
I hope so.
 
I hated high school (the social aspects anyway) and dropped out the minute I was able to (16th birthday).

I don't know enough about what school and teenagers are like nowadays, but it's probably just as bad.

One thing might be different though. My school had a no-frills gender-divided curriculum, and the only extracurriculars were sports and popularity contests. I think nowadays most schools have more interesting programs and activities. If one of them caught my attention, I might want to be there.
 
I was sorry to see the end of elementary school. We had a pretty tight nit group there and the nuns encouraged that spirit. One in particular encouraged a sense of unity.

I was really glad to be done with HS. Being Catholic in my time meant you had to attend an all boys school.

College was boring and uninspiring but I finished with a degree in something.

If I thought school was boring, along comes the world of work.
Still not enough to make me pine away for HS.
 
Entering high school in 2023. Not a snowball's chance in a very hot place. I attended high school in a small town. Being a country boy, I had to deal with small town bullies. I attended a 1 room country school out in the country. Sort of school you might see in Michael Landon's "Little House on the Prairies."

Now with everyone starring at their phones, the drugs, teacher not allowed to discipline, students being forced to watch news & advertising at the same time and everyone screaming about "their right" I wouldn't go if you paid me.
 
Packerjohn said:
Entering high school in 2023. Not a snowball's chance in a very hot place. I attended high school in a small town. Being a country boy, I had to deal with small town bullies. I attended a 1 room country school out in the country. Sort of school you might see in Michael Landon's "Little House on the Prairies."

Now with everyone starring at their phones, the drugs, teacher not allowed to discipline, students being forced to watch news & advertising at the same time and everyone screaming about "their right" I wouldn't go if you paid me.
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You'd almost suspect that some outside entity set into motion a plan to undermine the US from within.
 
Kids these days have to worry about mass shooters armed with assault-style rifles going into schools and shooting up the place. In our day, we didn't need to worry about that because that threat didn't exist until the 2000s. When we were in high school, we worried about Russia bombing us with nukes!

Actually, I never remember being afraid of Russia at all. We were concerned with having to go to Vietnam. The war was over by the time I turned 18, but the concern was there all through high school that we might have to go overseas and fight in a war that we never should have gotten involved in in the first place.
 
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