Walter Kirn's Article 'Class Dismissed'

The article titled “Class Dismissed” seems to belong in the opinion column rather than being from a supposed objective and unbiased standpoint titled The New York Times Magazine. Articles too recently have been sharing their opinions rather than reporting facts and truthful events while the newspapers or magazines still claim to come from objective points of view. The validity of the author is questioned for a few reasons: he speaks for a minority of high-schoolers, Walter Kirn, the author, is 55 years old, he relied on his friend’s accounts of senior year for the article, and the author also acknowledges that the proposal he agrees with will probably be ineffective. The author, who graduated as a junior and has no experience as a senior, appears to have some pessimistic views towards students in their senior year. He claims that most of them are uncultured and stupid, and explains that most have no aspirations for the future and whine to their friends about it while they are half-drunk in a parking-lot. To suggest that nearly 15 million students in the United States will blatantly waste their time in senior year and wish not to learn would be a complete fallacy and is statistically false. The author also claims that the senior year is a “do-little sabbatical” while ignoring that it is often used as a

This reaffirms his belief of this policy as a salvation for economics. He doesn’t care about any of his arguments previous to this one. He simply wants to save money rather than education. One who didn’t attend senior year should not be a reliable opinion to such a topic as this. He is too far out of his secondary education to know how the education system works as well. He attempts at pragmatism by admitting that it would be a slippery slope, but he becomes ignorant by continuing to propose the