<p>when teachers think that the only reason you come to school is to learn?? i mean, what kind of BS is that???? i'm pretty sure most people don't come to school JUST to learn(thats not even the main purpose), obviously its for the grades, am I right? Seriously, grades affect college entrance, and college is where the REAL learning takes place.</p>
<p>You go to school because you’ll be thrown in jail if you don’t.</p>
<p>^Or that…LOL</p>
<p>I thought college grades affect grad school entrance and grad school is where the “real” learning takes place?</p>
<p>@Halogen: you’re right! i forgot about grad school lol. but college prestige is important too right??</p>
<p>I think the idea of grades being the most important thing in high school is quite debatable…</p>
<p>^what else is in contention for “most important thing in high school”??? The only thing that might be a close second is discovering your interests???</p>
<p>Finding out the type of person you are, learning what it is that you love, making memories with friends and family without the burden of certain responsibilities (a mortgage, taxes, etc.), developing work habits and ethical principles that will help you later on in life, etc.</p>
<p>There are more happy, successful adults than there are former valedictorians.</p>
<p>yeah the only thing i learned so far in high school is how to bs my way into a’s</p>
<p>none of this “learning” can happen with the massive standardized tests and rote memorization </p>
<p>i guess i learned how to know information. does that count? (rhetorical)</p>
<p>The main reason that I go to school is because I find myself to be a zealot when it comes to learning. However, I am sure that this is not pertinent to all students. At the same time, I also enjoy watching our football and basketball games, socializing with friends, and participating in clubs that I love.</p>
<p>I go to school to hang out with my friends. Learning is just an unfortunate side effect.</p>
<p>I have, on occasion, learned stuff but school just sets up “false obstacles” or hoops you’ve jumped through so you can “level up”. I learn/enjoy school the most when I have a good teacher and low pressure.</p>
<p>They are technically right though: a school’s main function is to be a venue for learning. And technically, we do learn social skills, sports, how much alcohol we can drink before passing out etc. etc. </p>
<p>Their error is thinking we attend for solely academic learning ;)</p>
<p>Grading has been bastardized over the years, but (obviously) grades were originally supposed to be an indicator of how well you’d mastered some subject/skill. It’s not really supposed to be about the grades, and I think the college admissions process has had the perverse effect of making people anti-intellectual. </p>
<p>I want to learn. The main reason I got up early to go to to high school was because it’s legally required and I’m too young to be self-motivated, but I did want to learn. My main problem was with teachers who didn’t even try to help make that happen. </p>
<p>But here’s an appeal you might understand…teachers who believe we’re there to learn usually give less BS work. (And most people don’t want to learn at all, so if you do or can pretend to it’s fairly easy to get on their good side. This can have some benefits, like the time a math teacher gave me a graphing calculator.)</p>
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<p>This was sarcasm, right? (Right?) Because it wasn’t taken that way.</p>
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I understand the OP as sarcastic criticism of the increasing competitiveness of high school. I agree with the sentiment behind the sarcasm, so I added my own sarcastic observation that whenever there are consecutive levels of formal education, an armchair philosopher can easily tout the latter as the “real thing” and the former as mere competition for opportunities.</p>
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<p>I see it now. <em>feels stupid</em>
(In my defense, people do say similar things non-sarcastically on here.)</p>
<p>I learned all HS materials outside of school, come to scho is only a way to earn credit for me…</p>