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When graduating is essentially just aging out, it isn’t really graduating

• micromacrofoot 1y ago
  what does "really graduating" even mean in 2025? you're eligible for a slightly less bad minimum wage job?
  • otoburb 1y ago
    Not having a highscool diploma or GED can limit one's future career options; an example is the US armed forces[1]. [1] https://www.usa.gov/military-requirements https://www.usa.gov/military-requirements
  • variadix 1y ago
    Lowering standards is why a high school diploma is nearly worthless, it wasn’t always the case. If you can graduate with a high school diploma while still being illiterate, innumerate, etc. it is a signal with no entropy.
    • micromacrofoot 1y ago
      when was it not the case? as far as I know teachers have been pushing kids through to their diploma for 50 years so they could get out of their hair and into the workforce... both illiteracy and dropout rates were higher one complication is that standards for jobs you could live off of were at that point much lower... many more people could drop out and make a living, this is less often the case now