Contrast financial factor between university and high school
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Explanation:
USA Amswer only — other Nations may well have different rules and customs.
FINANCIAL: In the US, MOST Public High Schools are tax-supported and thus free to the students. There are relatively few High Schools not fitting this description.
At the college and university level, many (perhaps most) institutions require tuition (money) from the students. The exceptions are many State University systems which are free to IN-STATE RESIDENTS, but not to others. Even with this comment, universities often have additional fees not seen in high schools.
SOCIOCULTURAL: MOST high schools have the sociocultural characteristics of the locale (city, town, county, whatever) in which they are located. This reflects the fact that they are governed by local School Boards elected by the voters of that community. Those schools expect/”tolerate” the behavior of teenagers and their scholastic standards vary. In many places, there are two DIFFERENT standards — one for the students NOT planning on post-Secondary Education; a more stringent standard for those who plan to go beyond high school educationally.
Separately, there are many high schools owned and governed by other organizations, often religious in nature, where a stricter code of conduct is enforced and the educational standards are often higher. There are many arguments for and against this separate group.
HOWEVER, in most of the US, the standards of not only colleges, but also employers, labor unions, and various professional societies (which DO exist even for non-college professions) and others result in a reasonable minimum educational quality for high school graduates. Those who left high school without graduating can take a High School Equivalency exam and receive a certificate — that also helps set a standard for educational quality at the HS level.
At the college and university level, many (perhaps most) institutions expect more adult behavior from students, but they often do not enforce that nor obtain that. In general, American society “sort of” expects/tolerates college pranks, experimentation with alcohol (even where that is illegal), and so forth. Both the expectations and the actual behavior of students at this level is both more adult and more raucous (even childish) than in HS.
Again, the observation just expressed is for the “average.” Church-run colleges and other similar institutions tend to be more circumspect, as do particular institutions which are famous for control over the social aspects of their students (such as military academies). Again, one might for or against such limitations and behavior. I believe that a good university allows enough flexibility for the college student to mature and learn adult behavior.
I personally observed the results of too narrow a social environment at college age. When I was a 2/Lt in the Air Force, a very, very young Enlisted Man got into trouble with a local loan shark. He approached a new graduate of a military academy who refused to assist him. He then approached another new officer, who assisted him at once. When the two Officers were later questioned, the Academy graduate insisted he knew of no way out of the problem, and this was why he had refused help. The other Officer indicated that, having lived “on the economy” he had observed civilians handle this same problem and thus knew of a solution. The impression I personally came away with was that the near-monastic life of the Academies undereducated their graduates as to what young non-college enlistees might know or not know how to handle. For those readers now ready to lynch me, later in my career I met many Academy ‘products” who were faster learners and thus would have handled this, OR who had the common sense to direct the young Enlisted Man to an experienced Sergeant who also would have solved the problem.
In short, the Financial and Sociocultural environments of HS and college/university are very different in the US. This is why rules for college Freshmen differ from those for Upper Classmen at many institutions.