I have to ask to see if I am the only crazy one here.. but Have you noticed on ALOT of paper work that you may fill out for a job or other things it has the question..
High School Diploma / GED and you say yes or no to either. They dont care if you graduated.. as long as you have a GED. I think that should be a completely separate question!!
I graduated and I worked my @SS off to! I do not wanna answer a yes to both I want my credit for keeping my behind in school and graudating!
Don't get me wrong I am glad people at least get their GED.. but It really should be separate! So I look at that on app. and I see oh they don't care if you have your HSD as long as you check it means you may at least have your GED thats good enough.. right???
I think it makes it easier for people to think it's ok to quit school early.. why not they are getting as much as the people who graduated! And there is so many community colleges that says its ok you only have your GED come here to school.. so they can still go to college! WHICH is OK dont get me wrong.. It is great and all but I really think it should be a separate question so if one person has HSD checked adn the other has GED and all their other info is equal.. who would you hire? Cant determine that if it is all one question.
lol ok I am done!
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Heck they prolly dont even need their ged. I bet most colleges these days will let them in!
I think it's wonderful that people can take this path. I even met the President of this college system Dr. Watson and there isn't a more caring or more dedicated person on earth, with him its' from the heart.
No seriously criticism aside, I think graduating High School is a huge accomplishment for some people who actually worked their butts off and endured grueling hours with boring teachers and actually cared about their grades. For everyone else, we dreaded it and just were glad that we were free. Some kids go through hard times and drop out or are just slackers and give up. So this is a much more dynamic question of do you deserve the job cuz you check yes that you are not so incompetent that you couldn't get a piece of paper to prove it. I wonder how hard it would be to just lie n that question. Do they check?
BTW: They built a new City College in the heart of a Chicago ghetto and the place is full of students, it's state of the art and has one of the best Chef schools in the country. You should see it it's beautiful.
Some of these kids were former gang bangers and some may have police records some may still be in a gang of some sort ,but they are all giving themselves a chance through education.
In my job I deal with accounting, digital video recording, electronics, computers, software, public speaking, digital photography, contracts. You can't exactly teach these things on the job, so school is the best bet for anyone.
Eric graduated and is now going to a local college and has found a program specializing in ADD kids.
Lots of luck with your kids because some schools are not geared for the fast learner in matter of fact there is a lot of norming in classes. This is where slower kids are placed with faster kids in order to intentionally slow the class down and to stroke the slower kids self-esteem. So be careful!
I am off to bed but will revisit this again tomorrow. I am not done with this subject yet cuz I got a sister who got a GED and she dropped out of High School to get it, so to be continued...
However, sometimes GED is what someone can do at the time in their situation. My Dad dropped out of High School in his Senior year. I never knew why but I knew he went to work and was the oldest son of six. He grew up poor, when his brothers and sisters went ice skating as kids they used their aunts ice skates and took turns. My mother was a college graduate. When I was 8 my mother helped my Dad get his GED because he was having a hard time getting a job. He had electrical schooling and was an electrician. Thank God for the GED.
Know too, that the GED test is not a breeze. I helped someone study for their GED once. They scored high, and now many years later are in the Honor society at the University they go to at night. They don't need the college degree as they have an excellent position that pays in the six digits. There are all reasons that people get a GED and it is many times for a second chance.
Congratulations to everyone who advances their education, no matter what the route taken.
I understand that you worked hard to graduate but that isn't always true. Many diplomas are issued simply for just showing up at prison, I mean school, most days. At least the GED does test actual knowledge rather than staying power so I'd frankly be inclined to hire the person with the GED all other things being equal.
Yes, I really hated school so much that I won't send my own kids.
Tiffany D., Jul 22, 2007, 2:27pm EDT
I read through the article, Tiffany, and honestly I found it a little belittling towards people with their GED or even people who dropped out and never earned any finishing marks for highschool. I am glad to see that your tone has changed through the comment thread and I was really glad to see this last statement.
I personally dropped out and got married before I was 18. I never went back and never got my GED. I have in ways suffered for it, and in some "low end jobs" I rose above a few others who had HSD's and one lady who had completed 4 years college in a different field.
I personally would advise from here on out, judge people on how they treat you and you children, not how far they have come in school. At the same time, don't hire a lawyer or a Dr who has very little on the job time or low hours of practical experience! :) Have a good one.
I don't think it's bad that people get there GED though. Some just can't do it the first time.
I commend you though for sticking it out and doing it. Even though you had a kid.
I don't know how I feel about the hiring someone though. I think it depends on the person and the training they have. It just depends.
That is exactly what I did. I found high school extremely boring and repetitive. I don't advocate that route, because the majority of young ones that take that route don't do it because they aren't being challenged enough. I scored in the top 5% on my GED scores, and I guarantee I am of higher intelligence than many high school graduates I have met. I would not care whether the diploma or GED box was checked, because neither guarantees intelligence. Many people are graduated near illiterate even now. I do not know of any colleges that accept your admission without one or the other, or a home school portfolio. As an employer, I would care less about the box that's checked, and more about the way they present themselves in an interview.
Its nice to have the option of getting a GED. I LOVED school and it killed me to quit and get a job to help with bills around the house so we could keep a house. I don't think its important how someone gets a degree its how hard they try and what the circumstances in them bettering themselves are. People that take the GED classes work just as hard to succeed in life and prove something, I know a few people that have been in the classes and some see themselves as failures because life happens and the respect they have for themselves when they achieve the GED. I would believe it would be the same satisfaction of getting the High School Diploma, for them that is.