> This was probably a different time and place, but that'd be physically impossible at my school, not to mention seriously stressful and probably useless in the

> This was probably a different time and place, but that'd be physically impossible at my school, not to mention seriously stressful and probably useless in the end. Can confirm. Took almost 20 AP classes in highschool, alongside some college classes once I had exhausted the entire highschool AP curriculum. All of my own accord - which I only mention because it would probably really get this author going. No one asked me, or even suggested it. I even had to go break through some bureaucratic tape to make it happen. When I went to college, I realized it did not make me smarter, or more capable, or even have a better work ethic than my peers that took 2-4 AP classes throughout their whole highschool curriculum. In fact, I found my work ethic was a bit worse - my work ethic was optimized for passing AP exam after exam rather than absorbing the information in-depth. I had become a master of heuristics/intuition, but class itself very much became an "in through one ear, out the other" affair, where I'd retain the minimum necessary key points and forget these shortly after the semester concluded. > What if one of the kids got addicted to drugs? What if they became depressed? Would they have stayed the course? Apparently, they would have: > "We let them suffer consequences and would not try to mitigate the consequences because we saw them suffering. We would cry and be sad, but would not do anything to reduce the consequences of their actions."