Could a 30 year old actually tolerate being surrounded by hundreds of teenagers for more than a couple of days? They seem ok when they come in our businesses or we see them in a store, but on their turf surrounded by their friends, they’re really freaking annoying.
Kids on an IEP can stay in school until they are 21/22, and in Michigan 26.
Teachers seem to survive okay. Sorta mostly.
Actually, when I had to interact with teachers in setting like the community theatre, it was amazing how childish and petty some seemed. I thought this was because they were used to absolute authority, being listened to and obeyed without being questioned, while anyone who acted that way in an office setting would be told to F o pretty fast and frequently.
I recall a High School Teacher TV show episode from the 70’s about some kid who was showing promise as a star pitcher for the HS baseball team during tryouts. Then the teacher mentioned that he had spent a year in the army in Vietnam after lying about his age; the coach told him - the cutoff for high school league baseball was 18 years old and a 19yo was ineligible to play no matter how good he was.
So there are limits on other activities besides class itself.
I disagree. You shouldn’t have adults as students in the same school as children. Giving them till 19-20 is enough.
In addition, the tax burden needs to be cutoff or greatly lessened for people that can’t graduate HS by 19-20. At some point we have to say…we tried but schooling looks like it isn’t for you. If you wish to continue, then you or someone you know needs to start paying for it.
Ooh, that could be bad. Have you been checked for brain worms?
There was a story in the Washington Post about 15 years ago about a guy who assumed a false identity to attend an area high school. I think he was in his 20’s, but looked younger. The law definitely got involved, but I think the false identity thing made it worse - there were undertones that he was doing it to ogle underage boys/girls. IIRC, he used the surname Spielberg, and claimed that the director was his uncle.
I also have a HS diploma, as well as a GED, and would like to repeat HS over again. Despite my best efforts negotiate for tougher classes I never received the education I needed. I’m even having trouble finding equivalent courses in any local community colleges.
I found one school in Canada, but I’m not one hundred percent sure it will take me where I need to be. I would prefer a school in the US, doesn’t have to be public, just secular.
Oh and BlinkingDuck, it’s so easy to steal a kids future by doing “what’s best for them.”
I have nightmares about trying to solve a problem, but can’t because I was put in the remedial math classes. I have panic attacks about all the adults I talked to in HS, how they manipulated me because of my naivete. I’m constantly depressed about how the world is turning to shit and I’m not smart enough to fix it.
In some state constitutions, one is only guaranteed a “free public education” between the ages of 5 and 18, so if one wanted to continue after that, it could be expensive. This is also why some places charge for Pre-K.
Rick Rosner went to HS a few times under aliases.
KID’S Future you say. A 19 year old in no longer a kid. At some point you have to diminish the tax money for adults that can’t seem to graduate high school and, in addition, adults should not be going to school with kids.
What about zombies who want to go back to HS? Do they have a chance, regardless of age?
:rolleyes:
I’ll bring this thread out of zombiedom again briefly to take on this question.
Suppose you have two students sitting in a graduate school class.
One of them is 23 years old and has never worked a regular job in his life. Daddy and student loans paid for his bachelor’s degree and how he’s in a master’s program.
The other dropped out of high school at age 16 to work in a steel plant. After three years there, he went back and got his GED to get a promotion and a raise. A year later he was laid off when the plant closed and he decided to enlist in the Navy. He made Petty Officer Third Class, got to travel all over the South Pacific, then got out after his five year enlistment term was up. Then he signed on to a commercial fishing boat as a sailor for a year, then decided to empty his savings account and take student loans to go to college. Three years later he got concerned at the level of debt he’s taken on so he took a year off to work as a clerk in the post office. Then he went back and finished his bachelor’s degree and went to work as an insurance salesman but got involved a financial scandal and went to prison for 2 years. In prison he found Jesus and decided that he wanted to help poor inner city youth. He got out, took a few refresher undergraduate courses, and now he’s in grad school.
Are these students equal? Is it fair? Is it the case that student #2 so far surpasses student #1 in experience and maturity that he ought to be barred from attending because it’s unfair to kid #1 who is going to lose the spot of glory?
I have had dreams about being back in every school I attended as a kid. That includes two elementary schools, my high school, two colleges, and sometimes a school that I don’t even recognize. I find myself seeing scenarios play out that would scare the crap out of me, such as being back in 8th grade and having to attend the graduation ceremony with the same kids I graduated with the first time, or being a high school senior and repeating a freshman class and failing it, being worried about losing my diploma that I already earned, or going back to college to do my computer science major with a different concentration, forgetting to do assignments, forgetting to attend class periods, etc.
I would love to redo high school in order to do better in all the classes I messed up in, such as biology, history, and English, although I still don’t think I could understand Shakespeare plays. I would also want to take German instead of Spanish or French, because I would want to take a new language, and I have been curious about German.
Repeating school is the stuff of repeating nightmares.
And yet it’s done all the time. Nearly everybody is an adult by the time they graduate from high school.
I’ve got some kind of false memory about going back to grade school or junior high as an adult. Perhaps it’s the result of a dream, or hypnagogic hallucination: it doesn’t make any sense: as near as I can remember, I returned to grade school to improve and clarify my math, when in any reality, I’d be returning to grade school to improve my handwriting and book reports 
, but it’s clearly related to my teaching experience and education theory reading.
Writing this is erasing the memory: I know it’s false, so the more I think about it, the less it means. But it was very real before I started thinking about it.