galaxyrocker wrote:
Not at all. High school is about teaching you the basics to become somewhat of a functioning adult (though whether this is true or not, I don't know - I can't tell you how many don't know how to balance a checkbook, for instance). They don't generally offer things like philosophy or religion, or specific history classes.
Ah, thanks for the explanation. That is a totally different purpose of highschool. We had tons of classes on philosophy, religion, history and such stuff at highschool. Actually, too many, for my taste.
Here, it is the opposite. Unless you go to a specialized highschool preparing you for a specific career that doesn't require university (and those schools are getting worse and worse and lack the normal education part mostly), you go to a general highschool that is supposed to be exactly a preparation to university and to make you a well rounded educated human being. Well, the reality is not ideal too. A general highschool without university is quite useless. And it doesn't teach you to balance a checkbook either.
I'd say the problem with both systems is that you need to waste many years of life to become a full value citizen who can surely get a job and not be that jeopardized by changes on the market (that is the gravest problem of people without university everywhere, it seems). Both systems are quite inefficient. We are basically "children" at the age at which the generations before us used to found families. The consequences are not all pleasant. I'm afraid some parts of your system are gonna be implemented here (there is always the "original and modern" politician who admires the US too much and tries to implement pieces of it out of context and without thinking first) and the hybrid is gonna be even worse than both originals.