After reading this packet, I was slightly disturbed and upset. After years of believing that those of us who never quite mastered high school would become the successful ones in the future, this paper provided a shocking reality. Perhaps the way we behave in high school is what the future will really be like.
While I am biased against this idea, J. Senior does make several valid points. Senior discusses how high school is where we learn to interact with others and learn our social skills. In the "real world" these social skills can make or break us, so I was able to understand Senior's point here. However, I disagree that popularity factors (again I am heavily biased) because I believe that the reasons why some are popular now will be different than what will make someone "popular" in the future.
Plus, I think it is impossible to make such a large generalization that the way we are in high school is how we will lead our lives in the future. There are many instances where people defy the odds. In fact, I would beg to argue that each individual person is different in the way that high school impacts their future, all though there is no denying that it has am impact of some sort.
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