4.) He makes assumptions about adulthood being simple for a 16 year old teen to handle. I don't agree with his thoughts at all. Because they are outlandish putting kids in what sounds like a super intensive education. At sixteen kids act independent, but they just want to have fun hanging out with friends go to party's. I know in my town most kids don't pay for their gas, cars, or even have a job. Considering 16 year old's are not capable to make a smart decision. Botstein's proposal doesn't offer them to try adulthood it pushes them out into the real world with not experience. There would be many things that would need to change such as child labor laws. Most kids dont even get a job till 16 those few years in highschool having a job gets the teen an experience of the world. We have classes now were you can get highschool credits working a job that is trying adulthood working in the middle of the day not going to school. If you try something you don't throw yourself into something you don't know. You would want to take a small sample of it. Just like trying food it's like if you take a nibble of some strange new food and before you know it you've ate everything on the plate. I would like to know more about this man, it seems to me if he had a troubled past in high school if he wasn't in the clique.
Hi Chris,
ReplyDeleteI'm happy that you have thought about what Botstein has suggested about graduating at 16 and not at 18. This is the kind of entry I expect to see in the ones to come. I like reading the personal narration that you include, but what you want to do, which is what you have done here, is think about the essay and its implications to you and your life.
Ms. C