FACT.
I am not in university.

FACT.
I am not an adult.

I've also never claimed to be an adult, begged to be treated like an adult, or assumed that people would treat me as such.
And yet, I can't remember a time where people have treated me the age I was. Maybe when I was a baby. But I don't remember. In junior high, every other day was a lecture on how you are being treated like high school students now. Which makes no sense. In high school, every class is designed to horribly mimic post secondary education, apparently. Every poorly done assignment is met with the awful "You can't hand in things like this in University". That's why I go to high school, thanks.
Or the common "You want to be treated like an adult, you have to act like an adult". Actually, no, I want to be treated like a person my own age with a brain. There never seems to be a middle ground. You either have to sit there with an EA watching over your shoulder talking in a soft voice and scrambling for information they don't possess, or you have to sit there and listen to your teachers explain that you are not allowed to be concerned about marks/tests because it's harder in university.
"You don't like referencing your information? Then you're going to fail in university". Cool. Good. I have nothing against referencing, I was just asking a question...
"You need to know how to study for a test! Or else you'll fail in university!" Yeah, you'll also fail in high school, but no big deal...
I'm all for sharing tips on tests and grades etc, but I just don't see why suddenly everything is based on how you would have gotten graded if you had handed such a disgrace into a professor. Since when did high school become university? I understand the emphasis that should be placed on it... I just don't agree with increased expectations, because it's in the future.
On one hand, I can see how people think it's helpful, better preparing us for the future. On the other, bigger hand, I just want, for once, to get to be a high school student. And be treated/graded as one, too.