<p>Ok, so basically this is what my guidance counselors, teachers and parents are telling me right now. I summarized it below. </p>
<h2>Your high school years and SAT are a VERY important step towards your future. They will stay with you, this year (junior year) in particular, for the rest of your lives. You must get good grades, do well on your P/SAT's and try your hardest in school. Then you can go to a good college, get a good education and get a good job. </h2>
<p>Comments?</p>
<p>I immediately thought of the song “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”
Hahaha</p>
<p>I don’t know what you are looking for as a “comment,” but I don’t think SATs/grades/college is the be all, end all of life–which is pretty obvious. But there’s no reason not to do well–and it certainly doesn’t hurt…</p>
<p>High school accolades will only stay with you until you are accepted by a college. Following that, college successes will pave the way for new job offers, after which they will no longer matter. Should you decide to look for a new job in your current field, social aptitude and job expertise will be the only things employers will look for.</p>
<p>Which might give the false impression that what you do in high school really does affect your future. In reality, they only make those aforementioned transitions slightly easier. You could be a C student in high school and come back strong in college. Or you could find a starting position on a job and work your way up the ladder. And so on.</p>
<p>HOWEVER. The things you learn in high school - hard work, tenacity, ingenuity, social skills - that is, those things that affect your character, do matter. You could learn them in college or at your job, but it would make it easier on yourself if you learned those skills now.</p>
<p>Well, good grades could get you into a good college, which, if you do well there, would look even better.</p>
<p>What kind of teacher or guidance counselor would tell you that school doesn’t matter? It’s their job to push you into good SAT score because it reflects on the school. They must remain at a certain score in order to receive government money (public schools). If their scores drop it shows the school as incompetent. Same with high school grades. The two only matter to you as an individual if you plan on getting into college.</p>
<p>I can tell you right now that a college degree does NOT guarantee a better job. I have a better job than all my college degree holding friends and I did poorly on the SATs and in high school. Test scores and high school are not important in life unless you want to attend the college you’re shooting for. Employers don’t care about your grades, scores, even college GPA, they care about job experience, degree (if you have one) and how good of an employee you’ll be. Not to mention many people go into self-employment which means it doesn’t even matter what your degree, scores, or past life was about.</p>
<p>You’ll learn this as you get older.</p>
<p>AKA, sell yourself to corporate America.</p>
<p>don’t think about your future, think about the perspective a good high school background will bring to your life</p>
<p>think about all the silly math jokes you’ll be able to understand that less educated people wouldn’t. “what’s purple and commutes? an abelian grape!”</p>
<p>not to mention once you know calculus you can write silly equations like d(Depression)/dt = Depression, or integral[Happiness dt, t = 0 -> infinity] = Hope</p>
<p>while other people are sitting on their couch watching TV, you could be using dynamical systems to create goofy models of everything!</p>
<p>and to think none of this would be possible without a high school education</p>
<p>My school says middle school years are the foundation years.
The school’s parents believe that the elementary school years are the foundation years.</p>
<p>Honestly, this high school paranoia doesn’t faze me.</p>
<p>^Both are true.</p>
<p>yea, if you don’t know how to add how are you ever gonna understand calculus</p>