'Booksmart,' 'Euphoria' and why we can't stop going back to high school

I honestly cannot understand why high school still exists. With the possible exception of Congress, it's difficult to think of another institution that is blamed for so much and credited for so little. Say the words - "high school" - and fully grown, highly successful people wince, or cringe, or burst into tears. As an adjective, it is purely pejorative.

And yet we haven't bothered coming up with a new system of educating young adults and balk at the notion of making major improvements to the old one. (Better paid teachers? Higher teacher-to-student ratios? Nah.)

Perhaps because if we did, the basis for all comedy, much literature and probably - now that you mention it - Congress, would simply melt away.

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