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Originally Posted by 4throck
...High School, alas, is not learning...
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That doesn't agree with my experience. For me, High School was all about learning. Have things changed so much since I graduated? I don't think so. My son seems to be having essentially the same experience I did 27 years ago (with FRC instead of choir).
That said, I dimly remember the "slackers" who didn't take classes or grades seriously back then, and I'm fully aware of the same type of people today. I also recall a few obviously intelligent students in my day who didn't consider studying to be important -- and who then went on to go basically nowhere after school, probably because they hadn't realized that taking the "studying game" seriously would have prepared them for the nature of the world after school.
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XPERIENCE carries little weight to those who are not yet experienced themselves, so I won't expect you to take the advice of your elders without hesitation. But I encourage you not to dismiss it without hesitation either. While there is room in our world for the misfits to thrive, it is limited.