Walter Kirn’s attitude toward high school seniors is that he believes they are wasting their time.

Walter Kirn doesn’t believe in having four years of high school. Walter believes that only three years of high school is necessary. Walter’s first main point is that “the senior year of public high school is less a climactic academic experience than an occasion for oafish goofing off, chronic truancy, random bullying, sloppy dancing in rented formalwear and interludes of moody, wan philosophizing about the looming bummer of adulthood.” Walter then goes on and says that “senior year is a do-little sabbatical” which means that seniors get a break from school. Walter complains that if 12th grade was to be removed from high schools it would be “a way to shave millions from the cash-strapped state’s expense sheet.” He states that certain organizations want to speed students off “to productive, satisfying careers” which would let high school seniors “leapfrog the keg party and go directly from 10th grade to community colleges.” He even states that places like Denmark, Finland, France, and Singapore already have Systems in place for young juniors to skip over senior year and in most cases their young folk “speak English more grammatically than a lot of American high school students.”