Been awhile

[thesummerqueen]

I don't know how they did school in Alaska, but in Virginia if you didn't do the work, you failed. If you didn't succeed on the tests, you failed. I disagreed heartily with their rules regarding standardized testing, but when it came to the IB courses I took they were, as promised, college level in work load and in content. It's a pity I suck so badly at math that I had to drop a few of the better ones.

There are things I took away from both the art, chemistry and literature classes that I still use to this day - a product of the curriculum and the teachers. Of course, I'm saying this now nearly a decade after graduating - at the time I was extremely ready to be done with high school. On the other hand, going back to school at 25 made me realize that college wouldn't have been much different except for not going home to my parents at night and being able to drink more. If you really want to argue, there are classes I've taken in college so far thinking that I was going to learn something and realized that life, even this forum, gave me more pointers on how to succeed than those classes did - and they were geared toward my major! So that knocks college out for being much more useful than high school.