Let Teenagers Try Adulthood Analysis

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In “Let Teenager Try Adulthood”, Leon Botstein writes that schools finally confronted something suspected after the shootings that happened at Columbine High School in Colorado. He also writes that american high school is ”obsolete and should be abolished.” Botstein says that after the shooting high school students, current students and alumni, had stories about cliques and popularity. He explains that high school is “a world defined by insiders and outsiders, in which the insiders hold sway because of superficial definitions of good looks and attractiveness, popularity and sports prowess.” In high school, sports dominate what’s really important. He believes that high school holds young adults beyond their developing period because children mature at a fast pace in the late twentieth century. He believes that a child’s education should start when he or she is four to five years old and should end when he or she finishes sixth grade. For the secondary education, he thinks it should start with the seventh grade and four years following from that, leaving them to graduate at 16 rather …show more content…
My freshman and sophomore year I went to an all girls catholic high school. I never wanted to got here in the first place but my mother and my grandma wanted me to go there because my mother, my aunt, and my cousin all graduated from there. To make her happy I dealt with it and went there, but I was never happy about it. Day by day I began to become more unhappy. At that school I felt like it was all about popularity and sports. It was about the cutest guy you were talking to or who was the cutest couple. Some of the staff and students made me feel disgusted and I became a very negative person. Then eventually I was disgusted at the person I became. I never really showed my emotions to anyone other than my friends and since i’m terribly shy that just made me seem more