Vague Thoughts on Apparation - Conclusion Confusion

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 93621

"Shaun Hately" <drednort at a...> wrote:
> From Americans I know, I have the impression that in the US, 
> senior high school students (maybe not all - but a lot of them) 
> tend to know if they have been accepted to a college or not 
> sometime fairly early in their final year of high school. Their 
> admissions to college are primarily based on the grades they 
> receive *before* their final year of high school. They may well 
> have to maintain the same standard to keep the place they've been 
> offered - but the hardest work of getting a place has already been 
> done.
> 
> In the UK - and it's this way in Australia as well, so I remember 
> the pressure - your final results at the end of your final year of 
> secondary schooling are the most *critical* determinant of your 
> access to higher education.
<snip> 
> Time spent teaching kids to drive would be seen as a severe waste 
> of the valuable resource of *time* that could be spent on studies 
> that matter.

Susan:
Yes, Shaun, you've accurately captured how the system works in the 
U.S.  By the last semester of one's senior year in high school, 
college-bound students typically know where they'll be going...and 
it's pretty hard to care about grades that last semester!

However--and this is the main reason I wanted to write in here--
Americans typically take their driver's ed. class **in the summer**, 
not during the school year itself, so it actually doesn't "waste 
valuable time which could be spent on studies that matter."  

Siriusly Snapey Susan