School is a training and proving ground for the stress you'll encounter in the workforce. The signal embedded in academic success is "this person was a given a shit ton of difficult work to do under a tight deadline and was successful, many times." That's why (some) employers care about it.
I think we'd do children a great disservice by jerking their worlds from "trivial mode" to "impossible mode" at 3:01pm on the last day of high school. Easing into it is a reasonable idea.
Of course, it'd be nice if we didn't have to face extreme competition for the opportunity to put in long hours on stressful workloads in order to provide for ourselves, but that's the larger economic system more than the schools.
> School is a training and proving ground for the stress you'll encounter in the workforce. The signal embedded in academic success is "this person was a given a shit ton of difficult work to do under a tight deadline and was successful, many times." That's why (some) employers care about it.
I agree with you, but once again this is treating the symptoms of a fundamentally broken society, in this case by abusing children. Not acceptable at all IMO.
School is a training and proving ground for the stress you'll encounter in the workforce. The signal embedded in academic success is "this person was a given a shit ton of difficult work to do under a tight deadline and was successful, many times." That's why (some) employers care about it.
I think we'd do children a great disservice by jerking their worlds from "trivial mode" to "impossible mode" at 3:01pm on the last day of high school. Easing into it is a reasonable idea.
Of course, it'd be nice if we didn't have to face extreme competition for the opportunity to put in long hours on stressful workloads in order to provide for ourselves, but that's the larger economic system more than the schools.