the American high school isobsolete and should be abolished.
They believe that the American High School system is failing and that it should be abolished and hopefully reworked afterwards and fixed.
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The team sports of high school dominate morethan student culture
The sports teams are what drive the entire school. Without the sports teams, some of these schools would be nothing but basically prisons where kids were sent to learn.
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But the rules of high school turn out not to bethe rules of life.
The rules of success and popularity in high school are usually not true when it comes to adult hood and the real world. They are left behind and those who were less popular become the successful ones who may become the boss of the popular person in high school
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The Littletonkillers, above and beyond the psychologicaldemons that drove them to violence, felttrapped in the artificiality of the high schoolworld and believed it to be real.
They felt as if they were trapped in this world that did not seem real and that they could do nothing about it.
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But theprimary reason high school doesn’t workanymore, if it ever did, is that young peoplemature substantially earlier in the late 20thcentury than they did when the high school wasinvented.
People are maturing much earlier now than they ever did when high school was created. They are more mature in middle school than some people were in high school back then.
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Young people should graduate at 16rather than 18.
They feel that we are in school for too long, and that we should abolish junior high because kids are becoming so much more mature earlier in life.
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They could then enter the real world, the worldof work or national service, in which they wouldtake a place of responsibility alongside olderadults in mixed company.
They would learn what it is like to work in the real world and to be among those of similar interests or similar careers.
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For those 16-year-olds who do not want to doany of the above, we might construct new kindsof institutions, each dedicated to one activity,from science to dance, to which adolescentscould devote their energies while workingtogether with professionals in those fields.
They may construct new institutions that would focus on one thing in specific and that is it. That would allow a lot of people to really choose what they wanted.
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Let Teenagers Try Adulthood
S:The speaker is Leon Botstein, he is the president of Bard College and the author of the book called "Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture". O: The Occasion is to bring awareness to how broken the American school system is and how it needs to be fixed. A: The audience for this article is school systems as well as students and teachers. P: The purpose is to have schools and the United States realize that our school system is failing kids. S: The subject is the American school system, in particular the high school system. Tone: The tone of this is informative and also argumentative towards the school systems.
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