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I’m going to disagree with you here. For most kids in high school regulars courses it is absolutely day care. And that’s the majority of students. Honors, AP,

• caddemon 3y ago
  Even top public test high schools like Stuyvesant in NYC have an attitude towards their students as if it is daycare. Just look how they acted when teachers were calling out sick en masse during Omicron. They cancelled many classes but forced all students to come in anyway and sit in a cramped gymnasium "study hall". I'd agree that for these students HS shouldn't be a daycare, but that doesn't mean it isn't the prevailing attitude amongst current administrators. Piling on a bunch of extra memorization work doesn't mean they're treating students as independent thinkers.
• Tade0 3y ago
  This is the sort of approach that's utterly foreign to me. When people in my class started turning 18 teachers reminded us that compulsory education doesn't apply to them any more, so they're free to leave at any time - with appropriate consequences regarding their chances of passing, but nothing else.
  • Pigalowda 3y ago
    They still almost certainly live at home and I imagine there’s an expectation from their parents to finish high school. There’s definitely a big line between being a crappy student doing the bare minimum vs dropping out.
    • Tade0 3y ago
      Does that make high school a daycare? I don't get it. At age 15 I had curfew, but could generally come and go as I pleased. At age 17 I was at times left alone at home for a few nights. This was all normal in my teenage years in my corner of the world. Why would high school need to function as a daycare? The teachers would definitely rather not have to deal with this on top of the usual responsibilities.