Thread: GED's and Diplomas

APPLAUDS Furgy!!!!! {{{{{{CLAPS}}}}}} Im truly amazed and you deserve those high honors. Congratulations!!! TRULY!!
That right there is exactly what Im talking about!! You truly deserve that Furgy!!

5 days a week for 6 hours a day for 2.5 months as compared to 5 days a week for 8 hours a day for 4 years? Not an equal education. And it is not fair that someone who finished school, tried as hard as they could to make good grades, who may not be as smart as some others but keeps trying cannot receive an all expenses paid higher education that someone who may be smarter but did not work as hard can receive. I am sure that you did work hard and overcome many adversities, but so did many others and they graduated in spite of it. This is not a slam against you or anyone else, it is just an opinion and it is how I feel on the subject. We will just have to agree to disagree.

How is it not a slam against others? You are acting like anybody who didnt do exactly as you is not as good as you.
I dont think you are actually listening to what anyone else is actually saying. I dont hear one legitimate reason as to why someone who finishes high school is better than someone who gets their GED. THATS EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE SAYING. You cannot have it both ways saying you're not slamming them then in the next sentence saying BUT.....I feel IM BETTER.

"but school is designed to educate us in things that we might not learn at home. Just because you can read and write does not mean that you would necessarily read classic literature as you are required to do in school, you would not have to actually think about the true meaning if it were not for book reports or essays that expand your mind. Were you required to read any literature in order to pass your exam?"

Pass an exam? Ok,when I was in High school I had no desire nor the intellect to read classic literature,and for the most part to read anything.I do now because life has taught me to understand what I am reading,to read with meaning ,to understand the depth of the words themselves.I barely graduated by the skin of my teeth,I didn't even have a 2.0.So,I guess if you call graduating with less than a 2.0 an accomplishment,so be it. If I would have waited to go back to school,I would have went to an adult education class myself (by choice) Luckily I went and busted my ass to do what needed to be done.I knew I could not skate through college like I had in high school.How many High school students do you know who can read Macbeth or any other of Shakespeare's classics?

Originally Posted by reckless

Someone posted a thread earlier about receiving her GED and stated that if she scored high enough, she would receive an honors diploma and have her continuing education paid for. Not to start a controversy, but how does everyone think about this?

I feel that going back to get your GEd is wonderful, everyone who didn't have the opportunity to complete high school should do it. However, I don't feel that a GED and a high school diploma should be considered equal certificates. People who actually go to school the whole 12 years and graduate should not have their diploma on par with someone who quit school, goes to a few classes later in life and is made to take an exam that most anyone could pass and then receives a certificate that most employers consider the same as a diploma.

What is the point of even going to high school if you can just quit and then take a test later? Shouldn't students who actually stuck it out and tried be rewarded? I do think the GED should be recognized as a completion of an education, but just not as an equal to a real diploma.

I tend to agree with you. My DH doesn't have either one. His parents allowed several of their 12 kids to quit school. In fact, one sister was allowed to quit high school at 15 to become a nanny for a neighbor. This was NOT the 1800s people! (anyone else find that abnormal? my ILS don't)

I went to high school, studied and did what I was required to do. I worked hard and took my lumps. My DH, meanwhile, bless him, did get a job, but never finished high school. Why should his GED, if he ever gets one, be considered on the same caliber as a Diploma. Granted some people do have good reasons for not going to school, medical and otherwise, but still, it should not be considered equal. I am not saying I am better than anyone. But it is not the same. In fact, the military used to not consider it the same and some employers don't see it as the same, either.

No offense to you Mom but Im not a bit suprised you feel that way.