College allows students more freedom than high school in most important decision-making. Such choices as schedule, attendance, or class selection are a few examples of how college is less restrictive than high school. On the other hand, there is also other important decisions to be made outside of their academics by college students such as alcohol, drugs, vandalism, and emotional difficulties. Because of this educational freedom, the students have more control over their education, and therefore have more responsibility in its outcome.
             High school, through its control over many decisions that are made for students, seems to be more restrictive than college. Many aspects of a student's life are pre-set and cannot be changed by the student to fit his or her needs. For example, the student's time schedule is set every year. Every student must go the same amount of hours every year. The average time a student has to go to school is from 7:30 a.m. to 1:55p.m. every day, whether they needed all the time or not. Students have to spend more time at school to take filler classes that they do not need to take but had to take to fill up their block of time. Another aspect of high school life is that there is a restrictive mandatory attendance policy. In most high schools, a failure to be in class for three day would immediately result in a detention, unless a student arrived with a signed doctor's excuse. Such an attendance policy usually pulled students to class in fear of having to go to detention if they failed to attend. Also, class schedules for each year in high school are already set with the choice of electives being left to the student. Almost all high
             schools require a certain amount of electives and classes to be completed before graduating. For instance, some high schools might require you to take a language or an art elective before you graduate. All of these restrictions give less responsibility to ...