Speaking as a recent high school graduate, this isn't the solution.
The solution is to not subject high school students to four years of bullshit, and let them move ahead at the rate they deserve instead of the rate that the worst of them can barely handle.
For people who want more advanced options, getting 2 years of community college before being mature enough for university is definitely one solution, and for those who want/need to work, it's fair to not subject them to 11th and 12th grade. But I feel this way because any individual year of schooling is almost totally worthless, so why not just cut them out if there's a chance to let a person get what they OUGHT to be getting. All realistic knowledge and development of talent at a young age is either outside of the classroom, or so restricted by the classroom it's years behind where it could be.
And people wonder why Americans are falling behind foreign students...
I'm quite certain this happens to me.. on my Dell XPS laptop. It seems to describe exactly what I've found. My laptop has the specs to run most games, but craps up on simple video and runs everything only at minimum settings, even right out of the box.
I disagree with the third paragraph. I think it's directed not at people who are "literally unable to tear themselves away from the game long enough to go to a therapy session in real life" but at people are simply unwilling to - and I say this from (sort-of) personal experience. A person in this situation, to some extent, likes it, and falling into dangerous lifestyles from force of habit is too easy. I can't imagine them ever wanting to go therapy in real life - but they could humor a person talking to them online (whether on WoW or just an IM client) simply because it doesn't take effort towards something they're already put off by.
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Speaking as a recent high school graduate, this isn't the solution. The solution is to not subject high school students to four years of bullshit, and let them move ahead at the rate they deserve instead of the rate that the worst of them can barely handle. For people who want more advanced options, getting 2 years of community college before being mature enough for university is definitely one solution, and for those who want/need to work, it's fair to not subject them to 11th and 12th grade. But I feel this way because any individual year of schooling is almost totally worthless, so why not just cut them out if there's a chance to let a person get what they OUGHT to be getting. All realistic knowledge and development of talent at a young age is either outside of the classroom, or so restricted by the classroom it's years behind where it could be. And people wonder why Americans are falling behind foreign students...
I'm quite certain this happens to me.. on my Dell XPS laptop. It seems to describe exactly what I've found. My laptop has the specs to run most games, but craps up on simple video and runs everything only at minimum settings, even right out of the box.
I disagree with the third paragraph. I think it's directed not at people who are "literally unable to tear themselves away from the game long enough to go to a therapy session in real life" but at people are simply unwilling to - and I say this from (sort-of) personal experience. A person in this situation, to some extent, likes it, and falling into dangerous lifestyles from force of habit is too easy. I can't imagine them ever wanting to go therapy in real life - but they could humor a person talking to them online (whether on WoW or just an IM client) simply because it doesn't take effort towards something they're already put off by.
Find me someone who plays Tetris just because they enjoy fitting blocks together.