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Any punishments or fines imposed there? Do we need to bail someone out perhaps?
Surely you've been skipping classes to play OFP!
Any punishments or fines imposed there? Do we need to bail someone out perhaps?
Heh! Funny story, but its got a more serious meaning for me. That guy was talking about how those kids' parents were jeoprodizing their children's very future because they were missing school. This is bullshit. Teachers do this all the time, especially when you start to fail classes. They make it so stressful for the student by getting inside their heads and making them believe that how they do in school is how they'll do in life. I'm technically a drop-out........of school, that is. i plan to be as successful as possible in real life.
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Me too. I was drawing and dreaming in school and never paid much attention to what was taught. Now I make a living off my twisted dreams and [not meant to be bragging or anything like that] now make more money than any of my old classmates. If I had let them "get to me" in school, I'd probably just have ended up being a salesperson or working in a postoffice or something
Like Aculaud said, missing school doesn't jeopardize shit when the kid is with it's parents.
My parents would motivate me by taking me out while everyone else was at school. Going to school every day becomes tedious. - Hating school for the simple fact that it exists can't be cured in a person.
I went to a high school called Satec, and it is the WORST school. They distributed propaganda of how the school was the most high-tech school in North America. And lots of kids from all over the provance moved to go there.
It took the students 1 week to realize that Satec was a dump. Literally a dump.
Computers were out-dated, teachers hated their jobs, facilities were filthy... And the list goes on.
In the end, a lot of kids in Satec dropped out because they became discouraged from school. Satec made them feel that schools aren't a place to learn anymore.
I'm a high school drop out, too. But I had a job waiting for me. And it's a damn good job that makes me feel needed.
Eventhough I don't have a diploma, I have the equivelant of a 5-year highschool education.
And since I'm a guy, not having a diploma will only hurt me a little.
lol, Gimbal. You and I tried to post at the same time, and mine was cancelled out.
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (FetishFool @ June 20 2002,12:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">lol, Gimbal. ***You and I tried to post at the same time, and mine was cancelled out. ***
My first attempt got me a 404, so maybe it was because I hammered the post button more agressively than you (like the old Olympic games for the c64)
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (WKK Gimbal @ June 20 2002,13:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">If I had let them "get to me" in school, I'd probably just have ended up being a salesperson or working in a postoffice or something ***
Instead, you've advanced to being a forum moderator.
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (WKK Gimbal @ June 21 2002,06:23)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">My first attempt got me a 404, so maybe it was because I hammered the post button more agressively than you (like the old Olympic games for the c64) ***
lol, it took me a minute to finally post mine.
If I had lost my text, I would've to spammed your email inbox with pictures of my scrotum.
I have a very nice scrotum, though. So I'd probably throw in a few pictures of the cake that I sprinkled with my girlfriend's pubic shavings.
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (theavonlady @ June 20 2002,12:28)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (WKK Gimbal @ June 20 2002,13:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">If I had let them "get to me" in school, I'd probably just have ended up being a salesperson or working in a postoffice or something ***
Instead, you've advanced to being a forum moderator.
Exactly
At a postoffice, I would only have been able to ruin the mood of the customers - here I can ban people too
I might disagree with you on some points here. Sure you can succeed in the world without formal education, but those are general exceptions. Most people without a high-school diploma end up working in BurgerKing or something similar. Getting a degree gives you much more choices, not to say job opportunities later.
Of course, one can discuss how much you actually learn in school and if things could be made in a better way. But we still live in the real world where a degree matters, regardless if it is fair or not.
I consider that going through high school is very importrant. It gives you the all-round education that you need to have to understand the basics of the world (science, culture...).
My own education has been very classical. After high school I did my military service and then directly proceeded to the university studying electrical engineering. Now I am in my final stages of getting my MSc in EE. What have I gotten out of it then? Well, if we look at the practical considerations first, I've made sure that I will have no problem getting a job. Engineers are always in high demand. The things that I have learned are less importrant. You forget much of the details pretty soon anyway. However, you have been trained in creative problem solving and structured thinking. And this means a lot to me.
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ June 20 2002,12:39)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I might disagree with you on some points here. Sure you can succeed in the world without formal education, but those are general exceptions. Most people without a high-school diploma end up working in BurgerKing or something similar. Getting a degree gives you much more choices, not to say job opportunities later.
Of course, one can discuss how much you actually learn in school and if things could be made in a better way. But we still live in the real world where a degree matters, regardless if it is fair or not.
I consider that going through high school is very importrant. It gives you the all-round education that you need to have to understand the basics of the world (science, culture...).
My own education has been very classical. After high school I did my military service and then directly proceeded to the university studying electrical engineering. Now I am in my final stages of getting my MSc in EE. What have I gotten out of it then? Well, if we look at the practical considerations first, I've made sure that I will have no problem getting a job. Engineers are always in high demand. The things that I have learned are less importrant. You forget much of the details pretty soon anyway. However, you have been trained in creative problem solving and structured thinking. And this means a lot to me.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Ofcourse you are right about this. But the incidents in the article can hardly be so serious that kids would throw their future away. As for my own case, I was simply not ready for it - I've since "picked up" on many of the subjects by my own interest - the thing I disliked about schools approach to these subjects where the rigid and blocky mentality in which they where served to us, as well as teachers who tried to squeeze oppinions into our heads rather than form our own. Some people just block everything out when they feel a brainwash approaching.
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