eace:eace:I am kind of annoyed by this and I thought I'd just say it here. I get good grades in school but I also have trouble paying attention and so I usually get homework done at the last minute. I live with my grandparents and whenever I talk to my grandmother (who used to be a hippie but really isnt anymore) about something I like she always starts talking about schoolwork. Earlier I was saying I think it would be a good idea for the VW van to come back with better safety features and such and she said "Have you done your schoolwork" so I said "Yes, but isn't that irrelevent to question I just asked" and she said "Yes, but I needed to ask it". She also said that I have weird ideas and I said "so what if I have weird ideas why does it matter". Then she said "Well I don't spend my whole day looking at cars and listening to rock music". That really annoyed me... One day Im gonna move out and go to San Fransisco. eace:
ssssssaaaaaaaammmmmmeeeeeeeee here man see u there but thats in like 2012 and what part im going to san fransisco or berkley
Sucks. I dont like school much. Would rather be with friends somewhere fun, or home sleeping, or somewhere. Just not there. But I do good. Just got to get through it. Its a big priority right now I guess.
I'll probably go to the Haight-Ashbury area. I have seen photos and I really like the houses. They look like gingerbread houses. Plus lots of nostalgia. I can go wandering around the streets and think to myself "Wow Jerry Garcia probably sat right there and dropped acid" XD So yea. I'm goin to Haight-Ashbury...
dude, your grandma means well, if she's asking so much it means she actually cares. Are your grades good? Been there done that, seriously you guys need to pay attention to what they're teaching you, contrary to what you think is cool, it IS important, and you ARE learning important skills for life later on such as math, reading, writing, history, etc. you think it won't apply later in life but you never know. I messed around in school and regret it.. i got poor grades, missed out on so many scholarships and now i'm working my ass off just to afford to attend a community college and get my education while working full time. work hard in school, get good grades, get a DIPLOMA, which is a thousand times better than a GED, a GED will never compare, and hey, what can it hurt to just stay in school and actually pay attention? It'll benefit you later in life when you want to get into a good college. And YES, college is important!! Whether you want to admit it or not, whether you want to look like a cool nonconformist, the fact is, a degree, heck even a certificate, WILL aid you in getting a good job/career which means happiness and money.
yeah but I doubt that's what these kids are looking for, they think they've already opened their mind...
I totally agree with intellectualcurious. School seems boring and pointless but it really is the foundations of where you will go in life. At the moment im doing a Product Design Degree at University, which is because i tried at school eventhough i still had distractions and wanted to experiment with certain substances. You need to look at life in the long run, ye dropping out of school and following your dream by moving and chilling but without a qualification, these days when there are hardly any jobs, your dream will be cut short. EDUCATION is first, especially when you are 14 and 15 like the other guys that have posted. Hope you guys read this and i hope it helps
money and happiness have nothing to do with each other. all you learn in school is how to take orders and live in a totalitarian dictatorship. the only way to actually LEARN is by getting as far away from school as possible. go out and actually EXPERIENCE life rather than spending all your time "preparing" for life. true, a college degree will make people look at you and go 'wow they were dedicated' but if your not interested in a class then your 'dedicated' to wasting your time and money. learn what your interested in. and you dont need people to teach it to you. schools make you believe your incapable of learning without their help. if your not interested in a subject, then your not really learning it. the best example ive heard is "its like throwing marshmellows at someones face and calling it eating" high school is the worst. its just a way for adults to feel like they have power over someone. unschooling. -its beautiful.
Not to be a buzzkill or anything, but I heard that houses within and even near the haight-ashbury district raise in between 300k-750k, and sometimes into the millions. Same goes for many other neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay area. Good luck.
Okay, when did he say anything about not going to school? He says he has trouble paying attention, and dous schoolwork at the last second. This poor guy's not here for you to preach to him;he can get that at home.
I couldn't agree more, man. I'm in 10th grade right now and it sucks. I feel like it's so incoherent and irrelevant to the rest of my life. I am part of nature, and I spend so much time in the woods and being art and exploring my psyche, when I go into that box I feel severed from my origin and the truth within myself. I do not feel free to express myself or be myself in school, I feel withheld from being honest... truth suffocates in the walls of school... and I am so tired of filling my mind with such rubbish... I used to get straight As in school and all the teachers think I am very smart, just lazy... I am not lazy about things which are meaningful to me. People like my parents make me feel like a bad person for being myself, sometimes I feel lost because I am a circular peg and people are trying to thrust me in a square hole... Chaos is my order because chaos is within myself... My routine and schedule and life is the rhythm of nature... school disrupts this beat, throws me off... I have dreams that it is burning down... Oh
whoa everything you just said i can relate to a HUNDRED BILLION THOUSAND TRILLION percent. like honestly thats EXACTLY how i feel. im in 11th grade but im graduating early. [i took a lottt of summer school and an online class] cause my mom wont let me drop out and im not old enough to legally drop out. school is irrelevant to the rest of life. and the worst part about it is not the idea of learning stuff you wont need, its the fact that the time your spending learning that stuff makes it so you cant spend that time learning what you will need/ what you love. if that makes sense. when i get my diploma this year im gonna burn it. i do not need a sheet of paper to tell me "congratulations! you just wasted 12 fucking years of your life!!" im well aware of that without a piece of paper sitting there to remind me. and i used to get straight A's too but this year im failing most my classes and i just flat out told my parents and my teachers that i just dont give a fuck about anything that they are telling me. i used to be able to bullshit my way through the system but im TIRED of it. im tired of pretending to care about the stupidest things i want to focus that energy on what i love. we are defenseless in this system that we never even asked to be a part of in the first place. anyway i HIGHLY recommend the book "The Teenage Liberation Handbook- How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education." by Grace Llewellyn. its absolutely incredible. although it makes it harder and harder to get yourself to go to school each day. but it made me feel better. just hang in there, and get out of there as fast as possible. your not alone.
thanks man, I appreciate the support... good to know there are so many people who can relate to me and share my pains and passions... I will definitely read that book. Every morning when I wake up I think of the 7 hours I won't get back... I too am so tired of lying. I am going to a vocational school next year, taking Interactive Media, which means I will hopefully enjoy school much more because at least I will be spending a good deal of the time doing something I give a shit about. I already failed a quarter of geometry and a quarter of biology... so hopefully I can pass them for the rest of the year... I have all Bs and Ds right now lol anyway thanks again good luck with your schooling haha, happy day when you are released from prison hehe, and thankfully sooner than I will be :/
Oh my god. Today at lunch I turned around to get up from my seat to get a plastic knife to cut my orange peel, and accidentally brushed against my principal. I stood up and said, "Oh, my bad, Randy," to which he responded with an infuriated face. I looked at him for a moment and then said, "I'm going to get a knife..." I thought the incident was over with, but after lunch as I was walking back to class he demanded that I go to his office immediately. I asked, "are you serious?" and he replied, "oh, I'm very serious..." so I get there and it turns out he fucking called the cops on me and my best friend... called my mom said I DELIBERATELY swung my legs around and hit him, then called him by his first name (he said this with such a grimness to his voice) he kept telling me to be quiet but I kept asking "why did you call the police? what's going on?" etc etc, I Just wanted to know my situation... he was so pissed, his face was red, he threw his pen down on the desk and stood up real tall and walked over to me and looked down and yelled at me, telling me I don't know when to be quiet etc. I told him I was trying to be calm here, I was just trying to be reasonable, he said he was "done with being reasonable" with me... so I'm sitting there humming smiling, waiting for the police to show up... after like 3-4 minutes I say "man, what if you really needed the police for something?" hahaha but anyway, my mom and the cop show up, and he tells the cop the same story, I deliberately blah blah blah, I tell him it was just an accident, my mom is like "you've run out of accidents, Sam" so they're telling me it's just a game I have to play, everybody knows the world sucks etc but according to the cop I "can't survive life" if I don't play this stupid game, it's just the only way to live, I Have to do it, etc. so I'm like "I do not want to play this game" "oh it's just a part of life you think you're the first one to realize this, everyone knows..." like fuck can I not be my own person?? so bottom line is, I got fucking suspended for two days and if it happens again I will probably be expelled, because my principal can't run a school if the students think... or in his words "if there are people like" me... who question authority... so wtf yeah, I got suspended for two days for accidentally nudging my principal with my legs, calling him by his first name in my apology for said transgression, and then asking why he called the police on me for it... what the fuck!!! how can he take himself seriously??? OH YEAH, and he's considering fucking pressing charges against me... for being "unruly"... what the hell?? EDIT: oh yeah the I forgot some of the stupidest/funniest parts... when the cop and my mom came and shit he told them how the whole time I was humming or whistling, "doing anything but being quiet," and was later like "you still have a half smirk on your face!!" to which I was like "can't I be happy?" and when I was leaving he told me "you think this is funny?" and I was like "no, but I'm not going to let it get me down" it's like they don't understand how I could possibly not take them seriously or how I could possibly go on with my day and life without being destroyed by their stupid threats... I would rather go to jail then submit to some bullshit about fucking brushing against my principal and calling him by his first name... I tried to explain to him that I call him by his first name around my friends so it slipped out... and that my whole table could vouch for me, etc. and one of the best things was when the police first arrived, like in front of the building, he looked out the window and said "Oh, good, he has his hand cuffs" LOL like wtf sorry for this post being so long I am just so like, ???????? / pissed about this whole thing lol hahah
i would'nt mind school if it were a bit less conformist. i also don't like the amount of neccisary courses. you shouldn't need certain classes if it doesn't correspond with what you want to do when your older. i think that is a reason im looking forward to collage.
well college can be dumb also cause of all the general education classes everyone has to take to get a degree. im not going to college, however, if i decide theres something i want to take a class on, [like some kind of art class] then ill take that. but im not planning on getting a degree. i think its kinda pointless to spend time AND money on classes that you HAVE to take to get a degree even if they dont intrest you. that time and money should be spent on the classes that you WANT to learn about. it just makes me sad that society has taken college and made it so that the main objective is not to learn, its just to get through it with a degree. people no longer care what your degree is in, as long as you have one. if i go to college, it will be for the LEARNING aspect, not the acceptance i would gain from the rest of society.
