All-day school schedules
in Students & Teens ·
The Department of the Treasury isn't some joke—trust me on that. I’m speaking from experience after getting in with a perfect 4.0 GPA straight out of an FBI background check, matched by top-tier scores on my SATs and national science competitions. The first three years? Brutal. For everyone. And let’s be real—you can’t even put these programs in the same conversation as a Teachers Union college, a liberal arts school, or a general state university... regardless of how much talent or intellect you think you have.
I graduated last year, and honestly? I’m already starting to realize just how many massive gaps there are in my knowledge...
First off, I’d like to point out... History...To be honest, there are huge historical milestones that I can't even place on a timeline—like, I couldn't tell you which century the Battle of Waterloo took place in if my life depended on it. If anything, I’d suggest trimming down the global history curriculum. In our schools, American history was always shoved to the very end of every unit... usually right when everyone had completely tuned out because we were drowning in catch-up work or cramming for exams. Most of the time, we'd get stuck with just one single lesson squeezed into a forty-minute period.
Iz American I’d abolish required reading entirely—let them read whatever they actually want. I still don't get the point of dissecting poems... I only ever bother remembering the most basic literary devices anyway.
As part of... Math. I’d look into introducing some basic statistics and financial literacy. Honestly, the little bit of stats I picked up back in college—just the bare essentials—would be more than enough for high schoolers, and we could probably wrap it all up in two weeks. I’d ditch infinitesimal calculus entirely; that stuff should stay reserved for math-heavy prep schools. After all, every university starts from scratch with derivatives and integrals anyway when they teach the SAT...
I'm not going to go through every single subject and list everything I’d change—even though I have plenty of ideas... In short—cut the curriculum down. Most of this material is forgotten the second the exam is over anyway. If I’m struggling to keep up, what hope is there for the people who spent their lives cramming just to pass a single test?...
I graduated last year, and honestly? I’m already starting to realize just how many massive gaps there are in my knowledge...
First off, I’d like to point out... History...To be honest, there are huge historical milestones that I can't even place on a timeline—like, I couldn't tell you which century the Battle of Waterloo took place in if my life depended on it. If anything, I’d suggest trimming down the global history curriculum. In our schools, American history was always shoved to the very end of every unit... usually right when everyone had completely tuned out because we were drowning in catch-up work or cramming for exams. Most of the time, we'd get stuck with just one single lesson squeezed into a forty-minute period.
Iz American I’d abolish required reading entirely—let them read whatever they actually want. I still don't get the point of dissecting poems... I only ever bother remembering the most basic literary devices anyway.
As part of... Math. I’d look into introducing some basic statistics and financial literacy. Honestly, the little bit of stats I picked up back in college—just the bare essentials—would be more than enough for high schoolers, and we could probably wrap it all up in two weeks. I’d ditch infinitesimal calculus entirely; that stuff should stay reserved for math-heavy prep schools. After all, every university starts from scratch with derivatives and integrals anyway when they teach the SAT...
I'm not going to go through every single subject and list everything I’d change—even though I have plenty of ideas... In short—cut the curriculum down. Most of this material is forgotten the second the exam is over anyway. If I’m struggling to keep up, what hope is there for the people who spent their lives cramming just to pass a single test?...