The one about Will Lynch and why his big school was better than your small school

So here's the debate.. Big schools v. Small schools. Big schools, they got it all. Lots of people, lots of opportunities, lots of classes, lots of cohesion, lots of division. Small schools, don't got it all. Not so many people, not so many opportunities, fewer classes, less cohesion, little division. So it really goes a lot farther than that. In an ever changing global economy, one cannot survive with a small school education. How many CEOs in today’s world graduated from Webb City High School? Now maybe there’s one or two that went to small little schools with less than 1000 kids enrolled, but it’s obvious that their education did not stop there. The proof that a small school education is not nearly enough is the fact that we have colleges.

27% of the adult population in the United States have received a bachelor’s degree or higher according to the 2000 U.S. Census. To put that in a little better perspective, only 80% have completed high school. So four out of five people go to their high school and graduate, regardless of the enrollment of their school; but of those four people, one of them completes higher education. This statistic does not, however, take into consideration the amount of students that enroll in college and for some reason or another decide that it is not right for them and drop out.

According to infoplease.com, the 4,140 2-year and 4-year institutions have an enrollment of almost 17 million students.

So it’s decided that a pretty fair population of high school graduates move on to post-secondary education, which nearly by definition are large schools.

Large schools provide far better educational opportunities, networking, extra-curricular opportunities and social opportunities to students. While smaller schools may create a better feeling of acceptedness, it is not a realistic preparation of the real world. And in an ever changing global economy, the advantages of a larger school are nearly countless