[Little Pig]

In countries where academics are still highly valued, Senior year is the time when students are frantically studying and preparing for the intense entrance exams to get into the best colleges and universities.

[beckysueb]

If they get rid of the senior year, wouldn’t the junior year become the goof off year? And so on and so on and so on.

[umgud]

I don’t have a strong opinion on this, but I’d guess it might work for those students who are motivated. For those that aren’t it probably doesn’t matter. I was certainly ready for college after my 11th grade.

[Mr. K]

"the senior year of public high school is less a climactic academic experience than an occasion for oafish goofing off, chronic truancy, random bullying, sloppy dancing in rented formalwear and interludes of moody, wan philosophizing "

Ummm... wouldn't THAT be the actual problem ?

[Oldpuppymax]

Yeah! One things for sure...no one in our NEA run, festering pits of leftist thought EVER goof off, drink or do unseemly stuff during the first THREE years of high school!!! Too busy PREPARING for senior year, no doubt. Apparently this joker is a republican in the McCain, Grahamnesty and Specter moulds.

[Billthedrill]

I'm guessing this is just a little tongue in cheek. My own high school senior year was spent in dedicated study and flawless moral rectitude. I would never fib about a thing like that.

However, I've seen what the graduating classes are producing in the way of English composition and rudimentary math skills, and we could probably repurpose Senior year back to education and never miss a beat. An Advanced History of White Guilt doesn't really prepare one for the academic environment as well as a lot of education-union pedagogues think it does. They can't read or write either.