(I'll address my answer directly to the young man in question so you can feel free to quote me directly Caroline should you decide you like my advice to him.)
Dude, if you think five more years of school is bad then just wait until you have to get up every single morning to trudge off to a job you hate but you can't quit because you've got to pay your rent and your light bill and your water and sewage bill and your gas bill. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that your car insurance is also due and so is your car payment. So guess what? You got to get your butt up out of that bed and go to work to pay for all that stuff. While you're working though you can go ahead and think back to when you whined about having five more years of high school. Think back on those golden days when things weren't so bad, back when you fell in love every five minutes with all the cute girls (or boys as the case may be) and when Mom and Dad paid for everything.
Seriously guy, I've got major problems with our current economic system but I know first hand that dropouts fare the worst under it.
If you want to have anything at all under our current system you have to at least have a high school diploma. Maybe college or other avenues of higher learning aren't for you, fine then, but you got to monkey up and stick it out in high school. School work may seem meaningless to you now but most of the stuff you learn in high school prepares you for life later, well except for diagramming sentences. People don't become great writers like JRR Tolkein by giving up in high school, nor do they get those high paying electronics gigs that drive the women wild with desire by dropping out, and perhaps you might like to parlay that interest in baking into a career, well pal, you've got to have the math skills to measure ingredients correctly and you'll need those English skills to be able to talk to customers in that bakery.We all have to do things that we don't like or that may seem senseless at the time, but trust me, it will make sense one day. If you drop out or fail out of high school get yourself ready for a life of horrid drudge work that pays little or no money.
Don't be a chump, stay in school.Thanks for sending in that question Caroline!
Question month rolls on tomorrow and I'll answer questions all January long if you send them to monkeymuck AT gmail DOT com. I've got some great questions yet to answer but I need more, so keep them coming kids. I'll try my best to answer all questions on all topics all month long.
6 comments:
Great answer, Monkey.
DVM - Stay in school is the easy and probably correct answer.
Here comes the rant:
But this kid's reality, in my estimation, is true for eighty percent of all kids. Our society talks out of both sides of it's collective mouth on this one: Stay in school we hope you can play the game until you get a college degree. While out of the other side of our mouth act like we won't support you. So drop out because we need to support all those low wage jobs and the obligation of poverty.
Our country needs to stop trying to fix an education system only serves a small number of kids. That part of the system works for those kids. But We also need other schools serving the needs of all the other students.
Two words: home school. And not in a bible thumpin', sister-marryin', keep the kids away from the homosexuals way, either.
Great answer, Dr. Monkey. I really enjoyed reading it, especially because I was at risk in middle school and heading into high school. I'll share this with him tonight. The message will have more weight coming from a man. You're a real chump. Thanks.
These are things kids can't hear their own parents say, I think and it's better heard from the mouth (well, typed words) of a Monkey. We've been sayin' this shit (just an expression) for years, but when teens hear the same words from other sources, they can actually hear it on occasion. C. If your child actually thought he or she discovered this info on his or her own, rather than it coming from your solicitation, it would be even better. Like leave the window (but not this comment) on the screen, but shrunken down. Ok, leaving to get life rather than trying to manipulate the thinking of others' children. I can't even manage my own. Monkey, you should get a Little Brother for your blog.
Terrific answer, Mr. Supreme Monkey of all Monkeys in every stage of evolution. Seriously.
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