Why do people just not care about high school?

Jazzed
Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:57:29 +0000

I think the opposite question is more relevant:

Why do people care so much about high school?

I have plenty of friends who graduated with 3.0s, go to the state flagship, and are now engineers who will be payed handsomely. As long as you don’t do pitifully (like the people in your art class) high school doesn’t matter at all. Nobody in the future will care whatsoever how you did in high school, and few will care very much about where you went to college. When you’re 50 you will realize how pointless high school was; even my college friends recognize it just a year or two in.

People who need 4.0s are in the extreme minority and, as halcyon posited, probably have more character flaws than anything else (I myself am one of these people, and I dislike it as much in myself as I do in others). Many such people are compensating for some sort of inferiority complex, often social.

Having a big name degree can open some doors for you going forward, but arguably not as much as will the charisma of being the high school quarterback who’s social allure is something people want to be around. The high school quarterback realizes this and 4.0 students instead mistake it for stupidity–ironic.