So your son wants to drop out of highschool..

Kick his fucking ass. High school is NOT hard and he'd have one of two choices. Go to public school, or deal with me waking him up at the buttcrack of dawn every day to homeschool. If I had to put up with the BS to get my diploma and if his father had to, then so shall he. I don't care if he doesn't get the best of grades, just passing is fine in my book (because as I've learned, good grades don't mean shit once you get out), but it's hard enough to get jobs with a high school diploma, let alone without. If all else fails, a GED is a MUST, because at least you can still go to community college with a GED if you decide you want to give college a shot. And even though in today's world, it's a helluva lot easier for a male to get by and get good jobs without an education, it's not so easy for a female to do the same, and I'm not going to play the whole, "He's a boy, so it's different for him" card. I always HATED it when my parents did that to me and my brother and I refuse to do the same to my kids.

 

Me too.
I would be hard pressed not to be encouraging, provided the school system was the way it is today. I would insist he found work and started saving money so he could do something he wanted. There are plenty of courses to take that will give you a profession after a few months of schooling.

 

You can hardly blame kids for not wanting to be in school. Life cannot be lived within the confines of a blackboard and grades mean absolutely nothing. Everyone knows it. Theory without application also means nothing.

 

What do you for a living, prax? If it's not a secret.

 

i would let the fucker get a taste of the real world...

 

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read him the riot act for being too spoiled and lazy and lacking the backbone and character to carry through with one of the easiest rites of passage ever known to mankind. it's tedious, get over it. so will be 9/10 of the rest of your life. quit being a pussy or get the fuck outta my house.

 

That's what I did, and I'm glad of it. I would've been a pussy had I stayed.

 

good thing.

 

This man was also, in fact, a high school dropout.

 

I dropped out, and if I was in the same situation again, I would have dropped out sooner.

But for my son, who will never be in that situation, it would take a whole lot of work on his part to convince me it wasn't a foolish decision. I would tell him I'd get something nice for him when he graduated.

Then when he bought my bribe, I'd tell his gift was an education, and a lesson to never trust pops. :biggrin:

 

CHEAPSKATE! Kids don't want symbolic shit, they want bling.

 

Seriously.

At least get him a hooker.

 

Who cares what they like as long as you get them to do what is supposed to be done.

As far as it goes, I'd let him. He's not getting much of my money, so I hope for his sake if he does drop out he has a good business sense since I'm not going to letting him freeload his whole life. I'm sure he'll want the finer things in life for himself, and hopefully he'll want to know how to earn them himself. I'll let him make his own decisions though, within reason.

 

elementary school is from kindergarten to either 5th or 6th grade, depending on the school district.

 

A valuable lesson is worth more than all the gold in a dumb mans pants.

 

4-11 year olds? Thanks.
To all three people who answered!


Being in Britain my compulsory education is in fact, already over!
But the next two years are free anyway and I plan to stay at it.

 

I read that list before droppin out of university. rawr.

 

yeah, and it's really common for dropouts to do really well. whatever. i've never met a dropout in real life who didn't regret graduating with their peers. including dave.

 

I read it before, while and after dropping out of high school.