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Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by Miraste on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @11:37AM (#26239322)
High school standards in the US have reached a point where I would not trust someone with only a high school diploma to be able to do data entry. Bachelor's degrees aren't a perfect credential but they're a passable filter, in lieu of building a much more extensive hiring process for low-level jobs.
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Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by worker767424 on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @04:17PM (#26242994)
Seriously. If you're working class or higher, you have to try to not get a high school diploma.
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Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by imtringued on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @07:56AM (#26249349)
If highschool is really as terrible as you say and any random college is better then why not abolish most of it and let students take a reduced college workload at 16 years old? They would be able to finish college a year earlier. It's weird to have a dumbed down version of linear algebra and analysis in high school and then redo it in college.
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Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by minitoar on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @11:18AM (#26251592)
Some public high schools offer programs like this, that let students accumulate some college credits while still in high school. This can shave a year off your 4 year degree.
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