high kool

Just because you have finished college two years earlier does not give you the right to tease your old schoolmates who are lagging behind. Or does it? While it is rude to act superciliously toward them, knowing that you made the better choice to challenge yourself is enough of a pride booster. Recently, high school pupils graduate high school with a number of college credits, whether from AP courses or from a dual enrollment program at a local college or university. If high school students are already pushing themselves to take that many college courses, then why not have them graduate earlier so they can pursue more challenging coursework and expedite their lengthy path to adulthood?
High school students have a lot of potential. They can finish all the work that their teachers hurl at them. If finishing high school in a shorter amount of time requires more devotion of their time to their studies, they are more than capable of doing it. The National Center of Education released results for a survey given to high schools nationwide. The schools reported two million dual enrollment students and three and a half million AP students. There are roughly seventeen million high school students in the U.S, which means roughly thirty-two percent of all American high school students are taking courses for college credit. Why would these students take college courses? Imaginably because they realized that high school was essentially over and the ‘filler’ courses that they would go on to take in their junior and senior years would be counterproductive. In other words, they were bored.
Furthermore, students save time and make the most out of their lives. Two years a student could have wasted with senior prom preparations are spent working toward a college degree, which is significant in his/her future as opposed to trivial high school affairs. Even if the students decide to defer for two years, they could spend doing things that they normally would not have time to do, like perhaps travel the world or study abroad. A great quantity of people would give up mountains to redeem just two years of their lives.
Students would ultimately realize that high school is over and they are not children anymore. Inevitably, they would spend time with college students and become accustomed to the college environment. If not, their time at whichever institution they attend would be limited as an atmosphere in which people pay thousands of dollars for their education would not tolerate childish behavior. However, such incidence would be unlikely. When they graduate college, they would get a job. A job that they would not have gotten in two years if it were not for early graduation. A job that was initially targeted for an age group two years older than that of theirs.
The absurd notion that high school students need more time to grow and make mistakes is simply futile. People do not stop intellectually maturing and as a character when they reach a certain point in their lives. Every individual makes mistakes and learns from them. Adults are not perfect as they have just as many faults as children and adolescents; but adults’ mistakes are much more problematical and less innocent. Students can mature as they go on and take college, as they would have if they were still in high school – if not more. They will still be the same person fifty years along the road, regardless of if they finished high school earlier or not.
Overall, to end high school early would bring about great opportunities and conveniences for students. Success in college is a matter of time management and discipline. High school students are overly competent and can push to the limit to achieve any anticipated goals in their college years. The only difference between graduating as a sophomore than a senior is a few credits. Meaning, they can achieve a 4.0 GPA, land that once in a lifetime internship, make connections, etcetera; just as the traditional college freshman, who graduated high school in four years, is for the most part prepared to charge through the obstacles college experience. With all this responsibility comes maturity, naturally. Ideally, the students would not behave the same as they would have in their high school years. Despite it all, the definitive decision lies at the hands of each individual state.