Let Teenagers Try Adulthood

        The author's arguement that high school should start at seventh grade and you should be able to graduate at the age of sixteen is a jest. Do you really think that anyone at the age of sixteen is ready to graduate? No they most certainly are not. Almost all sixteen year olds have just been hired to work at a job and have only just then gotten their liscense. They are just barely mature enough to get a job let alone face the world on their own without enough experience to help them on their way.

        For example, eighteen year olds are immature. However, eighteen year old generally have two years more experience under their belts than sixteen year olds do and usually spend their times trying to get their acts together for when they enter out into the great unknown. While the sixteen year olds are busy trying to raise their social status in school and improve unpon their reputation. It has been said that sixteen year olds cause a pretty good precentage of fatal car accidents when texting while behind the wheel. They are so not ready to be let loose on the world.

        The statement that in the late twentieth century the young people have matured considerably is hardly believable because it seems as though the further we progress in technology and our research, the less we actually pay attention in our day to day life. What we have actually done is we come to a point where we never really mature. Everyone thinks life is a game and that reflects on our young teens. They want the latest in styles and in technology, which in turn makes them become dependent upon the technology and they come to not rely on their intelligence too much.

         Botstein's idea of the institutions being constructed for the young adults with one subject in mind is actually a pretty brilliant idea. This would get rid of any learning problems that someone would have because the school would be entirely centered on that one subject. There wouldn't be any other things hindering their progress since there wouldn't be any other subjects to take their time away. They would be able to become more knowledgeable of the career they are going into since they have professionals to help with hands on training and in the long run these institutions would help the students become very successful in their careers.

         The claim that sixteen year old Americans should be taken serious is absolutly hilarious. To think that sixteen year olds actually want to be taken serious is even funny. If they wanted to be taken seriously they should act like mature adults not as if they just came out of elementary school. They should learn to grow up and to accept the fact that they aren't little kids anymore. No one wants an immature kid to be working with them at their jobs because they would just distract and annoy them from what they are doing. This would lead to them getting fired or them getting in trouble on their job.