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"Here, see, more proof of why you should drop out of high school!" I actually love these stories for a different reason. If your interests are specific, you fi

by tomlin 16y ago

"Here, see, more proof of why you should drop out of high school!" I actually love these stories for a different reason. If your interests are specific, you find most classes boring, repetitive, unhelpful and you have passion for your interests - the school system fails you big time. It pains me to see our society viscerally and religiously touting high school education when it doesn't satisfy a high minority of minds. If we can add some light to that and possibly change the system for the better, less of us would be dropping out and actually touting high school as useful because it actually would be.

timtadh 16y ago
Not to belittle those whom the school system is the failing, but he wasn't in the school system. The blog post notes there was no school close enough for him to go to. It could be since the area was rural the majority of the kids engaged in agriculture/worked after 8th grade with a minority leaving to attend school in a nearby town. Perhaps you could argue the school system did fail him because there wasn't one close by. However, I think your comment was meant in the spirit of schools that fail there students like so many do in Cleveland (where I live).