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Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste by irrational on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @04:31PM (#19100206)
The problem is, you have no idea what you will pursue after HS. I didn't have any interest in history in HS. I ended up getting a BA in history in college because I fell in love with it. I never would have guessed I'd end up there while in HS, but in retrospect I'm grateful for the history classes I had to take.
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Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste by dorchadas on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @04:40PM (#19100313)
Yep! I changed my major three (or was it four?) times, and my minor countless others. I wanted to learn it all, and, 5 years later still don't really know what I'm super interested in and want to do as a career (actually, I do, but I don't want to enter academia with its current model).
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Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste by wwweston on Thursday February 07, 2019 @12:01AM (#19103123)
Which suggests that college is a better place to suss out an academic field you love or value than high school.

(I take the point, though -- I briefly taught HS math and one of my responses to the perennial "when are we going to use this" question was "most of you have no idea all the things you'll need or want to do yet, and we want to open doors for you.")

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Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste by 2019ideas on Thursday February 07, 2019 @08:53AM (#19105178)
> I didn't have any interest in history in HS.

I blame your teachers.

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Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste by wkearney99 on Friday February 08, 2019 @09:21AM (#19114309)
Well, parents certainly come in ahead of teachers for failing to encourage interest in history. It's not just teachers that have to magically light the spark.
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