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Re: Escaping High School

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Post by willcipriano »

Ozark wrote: post #72
willcipriano wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249039450_The_Myth_...

did you at least do some vetting on this one instead of just grabbing the first google search result or are you going to rely on others to point out it's flaws and then just post another link to another bad article in response with no comment on what vetting you did since you didn't?

I thought it was very well known and didn't require thesis level citations. Several links of higher quality have been provided in the thread that show this isn't something I just came up with as was my original intent.

Re: Escaping High School

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Post by MuffinFlavored »

> As a bare minimum, high school is supposed to give kids somewhere to go while their parents are at work and keep them from ending up pregnant, in jail, or dead.

I'm sure the tone of the article was meant to be light-hearted + silly + joke-y overall but this is actually interesting to me... Why is that the default? Why do some (most) parents need to actively invest time/resources to make sure their kids do not end up pregnant, in jail, or dead instead of the default being "those are non-issues".

Re: Escaping High School

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Post by guy98238710 »

jb1991 wrote: post #120

> And by the time you’re in your mid-teens, you’re probably as smart as you’re going to be – not as worldly or wise as you will be later, but the raw brainpower is mostly there. I strongly disagree with this. I don't know if it is genuinely true in a biological sense, but in my life experience it is not even close to true. There are lots of things I do that are so far beyond my abilities as a teenager. It could be du…

Fluid intelligence drops with age:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4906299/

You weren't an idiot as a teenager. You were just uneducated and inexperienced.

Personally, my decaying mental performance over the years is almost palpable. I feel like I am half-dead now compared to who I was 20 years ago. Sure I was nuts due to the powerful emotions, but that just means I was alive, not a talking corpse that I am now.

Re: Escaping High School

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Post by guy98238710 »

strivax wrote: post #132
jb1991 wrote: post #120

> And by the time you’re in your mid-teens, you’re probably as smart as you’re going to be – not as worldly or wise as you will be later, but the raw brainpower is mostly there. I strongly disagree with this. I don't know if it is genuinely true in a biological sense, but in my life experience it is not even close to true. There are lots of things I do that are so far beyond my abilities as a teenager. It could be du…

AFAIK the human brain matures around mid to late twenties, so you'd probably be right about this from a biological sense too

Beware of unquantifiable words like "matures". It might just mean minor ongoing changes. Or it might even mean deterioration. In the end, performance is what matters, not morphology.

Re: Escaping High School

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Post by Konnstann »

ac29 wrote: post #140
ameister14 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Dont put effort just for the sake of grades, they are worthless. They aren't worthless. Grades make it easier and cheaper for you to go to college. Good grades in college make it far, far easier to get jobs and can get you in the door to significantly better and higher paying jobs or grad school. So not worthless, just not the be all and end all.

> Grades make it easier and cheaper for you to go to college. How do they make it cheaper to go to college? Merit scholarships that are based mostly or entirely on grades are relatively rare and extremely competitive. And the cheapest colleges are often the least selective ones (like community college or state schools).

In my experience state schools that weren't very selective were also the ones offering scholarships for students with high grades/test scores etc. Many of my friends went to the school they did instead of a more prestigious one due to being offered more tuition assistance/scholarships for their high school achievements.

Personally I was able to skip a full semester and change of classes thanks to taking every AP course I could during high school as well

Re: Escaping High School

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Post by ameister14 »

gwbas1c wrote: post #122
ameister14 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Dont put effort just for the sake of grades, they are worthless. They aren't worthless. Grades make it easier and cheaper for you to go to college. Good grades in college make it far, far easier to get jobs and can get you in the door to significantly better and higher paying jobs or grad school. So not worthless, just not the be all and end all.

I think you've missed the point about TFA's discussion on grades. Here's a link so you can go back: https://skunkledger.substack.com/i/125171481/b-dealing-with-... Basically, high grades aren't the end-all, be-all of school. They aren't a way of defining ones' worth. The analogy of treating school like a job really applies here. TFA also points out the risk of bad grades. I should point out that TFA's advice works fo…

Yes - this is why I said:

>So not worthless, just not the be all and end all.

It was a reply to someone who missed the point about the discussion on grades.

Re: Escaping High School

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Post by ameister14 »

ac29 wrote: post #140
ameister14 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Dont put effort just for the sake of grades, they are worthless. They aren't worthless. Grades make it easier and cheaper for you to go to college. Good grades in college make it far, far easier to get jobs and can get you in the door to significantly better and higher paying jobs or grad school. So not worthless, just not the be all and end all.

> Grades make it easier and cheaper for you to go to college. How do they make it cheaper to go to college? Merit scholarships that are based mostly or entirely on grades are relatively rare and extremely competitive. And the cheapest colleges are often the least selective ones (like community college or state schools).

As an example, Georgia offers scholarships for all students above certain GPA cutoffs. The Hope and Zell Miller programs, specifically, pay for many students to attend schools like UGA and Georgia Tech.

Many programs and scholarships have grade cutoffs or maintenance requirements and while scholarships aren't entirely based on grades the grades are often a prerequisite.

Re: Escaping High School

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Post by balaji1 »

dmvdoug wrote: post #144

> Maybe you go to a school in a poor area, or with a lot of violence, or far too many students for the teachers to pay any individual attention to; or, relatedly, maybe you’re required to spend a lot of time caring for siblings or parents, working a low-skill job, or holding your family together or preserving your safety in some way. The disadvantages of this case are obvious, but there are a few advantages too; the…

99% of the time it is not hubris, just the author missing some viewpoint/info/awareness.

The author seems to have put in a lot of thought. And would be open to putting in more thought if you illustrated where he is incorrect or missing info. Otherwise the content is appealing to a lot of people.

Re: Escaping High School

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Post by tsss »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #84
tsss wrote: post #82

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Well, the hard part is finding that capacitor. I try to repair almost everything and very rarely it is possible to find the damaged component without extremely specialized skills. The best you can hope for is that someone else has done the work for you and posted it in a forum. Even then it is often the power supply that goes first and those parts are dangerous to work with.

It is not hard to find, and requires no special skills. Every residential AC compressor has a removable cover where the capacitor is mounted. No soldering required either, just connecting and disconnecting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWH38Rg1iMI&pp=ygUeUmVwbGFja... Home Depot has a tutorial too: https://www.homedepot.com/c/ah/ac-capacitor-replacement/9ba6...

I'm talking about consumer electronics like TVs, washing machines, kitchen appliances, laptops and graphics cards. The latter need specialized soldering equipment even if you know exactly what's wrong. Those are the devices that break most often. Normal people don't have a compressor that they need to repair (and even compressors have digital control circuitry).

Re: Escaping High School

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Post by Pigalowda »

Tade0 wrote: post #110
Pigalowda wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m going to disagree with you here. For most kids in high school regulars courses it is absolutely day care. And that’s the majority of students. Honors, AP, IB are not daycare.

This is the sort of approach that's utterly foreign to me. When people in my class started turning 18 teachers reminded us that compulsory education doesn't apply to them any more, so they're free to leave at any time - with appropriate consequences regarding their chances of passing, but nothing else.

They still almost certainly live at home and I imagine there’s an expectation from their parents to finish high school. There’s definitely a big line between being a crappy student doing the bare minimum vs dropping out.
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