Either I never belonged in the remedial classes, the GED is a participation trophy, or both are true.
Bonus, I tested out of community college geometry, but struggle with online high school geometry. I mostly wanted the college class to have classroom support for the online high school classes. They refused to let me take the class because I tested out of it.
The GED is essentially a participation trophy when you compare American education globally to other developed nations.
The curriculum and difficulty of the school you went to is variable. That’s why in the USA there are “good schools” and “bad schools”. One of the best things to learn is how to learn and how to teach yourself. That makes the teacher’s mostly irrelevant as well and is what’s needed in real life because you won’t have a senior huddled over you 24/7 telling you what to do in any position that pays well. That’s why it pays well.
Congratulations on your GED, it unlocks many opportunities. If your career path can benefit from higher education, there are good options online today.
It only unlocks community college. I tried it and went back to remedial high school. Didn’t matter cause remedial high school also only leads to community college. If I had dropped out at 14, got a GED, then community college, it would have been an accomplishment. Doing it as an adult only gets you a pad on the back that you’re employable now.
It gets you community college which gets you to university. It also gets you to the category of “highschool diploma or GED” for maximum level of education which can be huge for many jobs. Many even receptionist jobs have that as a requirement.
You’re not at a destination. You just reached a higher rung on the ladder. Keep going if you want more.
When I got my GED tried CC, I was disappointed enough to go back to HS. In my state, GEDs don’t bar you from going to high school because the legal language isn’t specific enough. Gaining absolutely no ground because why would any admissions care about one good year when the previous few were terrible, I started looking for private or charter schools that could legally take me. They legally could, but they could also refuse me and when I found a good one, I was refused when they found out I already graduated. Despite not even fulfilling the basic requirements(no foreign language, not art), I wasn’t able to get the the diploma rescinded.
The online high school I’m currently in doesn’t care, but it would be nice if they had a virtual classroom or even video lectures that corresponded to the material. I have to just hope the stuff I find uses the same verbiage.
I will not commit to CC without a way to void the credits. I’ve used every wording I can think of to find possible examples of it and the only things I can find are that some would consider it Academic Fraud.