drop outs?

There are so many reasons why people drop out of school, you can't just blame it on one thing because everyones different and everyone has their own reasons. Now the more stereotypical reason is that they are lazy and want to get a job which couldn't be farther from the truth.

 

so true.

i see lots of people here saying there is only one way to live life, and everybody and their brother should live that way of your going be nothing the rest of your life....


everyone has their own path; their own way to live life.

 

yeh but even the people who have their sights set on something dont always acheive what they want. the point is that finnishing school can be the only qualification some people end up getting for their early life, and for those people, its a hell of a lot better than having no qualification when trying to do what they plan

 

just fucking go through it, it will make the rest of your life easier

 

yeah i figure im fundamentally lazy, so whatever makes it easier for me is good... hence university lol

 

Just do a little extra work and graduate early. Take a bunch of classes over the summer and get a whole ton of easy credits out of the way. Most people don't need a full school year to learn a subject so summer school or community college courses are easy ways out. If you work hard and get rid of some classes you can graduate early or at least get enough credits so that you only have to go to school every other day or half days.

One of my good friends did this over his Junior-->Senior summer and he only goes to school every other day. He has a job and is making money/saving for college and is going to graduate with a full degree. It's like having your cake and eating it too....

 

i dropped out of my high school, because i hated the new deans, i was failing everyclass cuz i was barley in class have the semester haha, i hated everything about school.
but now i go to an alternative school and its basically all on computers. so ill graduate just not with my school. its fuckin awesome, i go to school from 1:15-4:15 everyday. its so easy i love it, wayyyyy better than reg. school.

 

I dropped out when i was 151/2 and studied computers and programming.. got a job smoked alot of pot..fucked around for awhile then moved to pullman. Now i have my own apartment but no job for another week. I think if you know how to survive on your own then you can get a high salary just like if you went through college.

 

exactly, if highschool is one of the harder things in your life to get completed regardless of circumstances, then you've better be prepared for one sad lifetime ahead of you.

 

It's not harder... it's that it's not relative to a work environment, where I live, as most people I know don't get stabbed at work/get in fights with pregnant girls, causing them to go into labor while talking to a co-worker.

Which is what happened the week before I left, after I had some nerve damage from a car accident, issues with insurance coverage, deaths, and some other more important shit to deal with. Like I said in the other thread, it hasn't hurt me... but most people don't have the persistance or ambition to continue their education, even though some employers pick people who have gone through GED moreso, as it shows that you can actually achieve goals rather than being handed a (in most cases) halfassed, outdated, and standardized curriculum in a compulsary gov't subsidized program.

As for me, my kids will be homeschooled, unless they ever decide otherwise or actually would rather go to a private school/alternative school of some sort, unless this country/state/county's curriculum's are overhauled. The first states to do it will probably be ones with failing industries and poor scores, such as Michigan.

Alot of special ed or gifted education students don't get the extra assistance, either. In fact, I'm still getting letters and phone calls from the gifted education department, months later... so that tells me they either rely way too heavily on automatation/standardization or can't keep up for shit.

 

worst descision possible imo for young kids in this day and age.

 

Were you homeschooled/are you getting at the social aspects of it?

 

no

but i've seen and read enough on the subject to know that the vast majority of the time, it's the wrong desicion for the children

but i'm also speaking in general, for all i know you could be a better teacher then any the school system could provide, so if thats what it comes down to, i give you props

otherwise i feel that homeschooled childen are NOT exposed to the social aspects, as well as real life and "street" situations which are so esential to being a success in life

an example i'll even use VS country to suburban living is my cousin, he grew up in a smaller town in BC, still was in the public school system etc. but now he's in a larger city and seems out of place, he doesnt seem "street" smart like i would consider myself, as well my Social life through the early/teen years which i developed mainly through public schooling has definatly put me in the position i'm in at the moment, for my age i currently consider myself an up and coming success, and in my mind the sky's the limit all which stemmed from social aspects early in my life

of course, this is all me.

 

I was homeschooled... I also went to public school (as I have already gotten at).

IMO, there's a difference between "street smart" and "well-traveled"

I live in a rural conservative military bedroom community/farming community/fishing town of 34,000 people in Virginia. I've worked alongside ex-business execs, cokeheads, convicts... was born in Sitka, AK, and had lived in four or five different states by the time I was four or five. I've held more jobs than people I know my age and most of the time I really don't feel my age and am not always comfortable around people my age.

It really hasn't hurt me...

 

and you still live in that community?

of course it hasnt hurt if you've never moved outside your comfort zone, being raised 25 minutes outside of huge metropolitan city has done nothing but benefit me i feel

 

Yeah, most city folks I know seem to be intense.. but at ease.

...though, I live 30 minutes from Hampton Roads, myself... which (if you combine the seven deady cities) is the oldest and fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States, home to 1.6 million citizens... and stretched/ sprawling into North Carolina.

 

hmm living only 30 minutes away i woulda thought u would have a bigger influence by it, although i'm unfamiliar with most American cultures, especially thins like military cities etc.

 

Well... my county isn't considered part of the Hampton Roads community and really isn't a city. Once you cross this bridge over the york river, it's like "wtf... what happened to the lights, how come there seem to be more confederate flags on cars than american/any other flags, and why am I in bumfuck?" Most people in my town either lived here there whole life or are military... my dad was in the US Coast Guard, which is why we were in Alaska. I'm pretty familiar with the west coast/yukon/BC... and I've spent quite some time around Toronto and Ontario, as far as Canada goes. I'd say I know Whitehorse or Toronto the best.

And I'm sure if anyone on here is from the area I live in, they can vouch.

 

why would you waste all you time going thru school & to high schools last years and drop out? i hate school too, but dropping out would just make crap worse

 

That's a mainstream opinion.

Unfortunately, my school really didn't care about your education and a few of my teachers would rather play solitaire or poker at the computer than teach a bunch of asshole kids. That and... when you lose a shitload of people in one year, you can only willingly take so much other excess bullshit from other folks who could care less about anyone's benefit.

Depending on the person (well, at least in my case), I found it quicker. I could have been in Spring classes in college by now, but I decided to take eight or nine months off and start in the fall... plus I have a friend who took a loan out to start a guitar shop and studio in an area where there aren't really any music stores (Northern Wisconsin... besides Dave's... and he's expensive as shit) and I'm considering moving out of state and working for him, for the Summer.

I was going to Summer school in the Summers, but they're stopping the program in my county because too many students are actually using a government subsidized program to their advantage and getting the hell out as soon as possible.