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Quitting school wouldn’t have helped me. It would’ve locked my into that life for myself. The chaos I had was mostly at home. School was my calm place.
by solarmist 3y ago
Quitting school wouldn’t have helped me. It would’ve locked my into that life for myself.
The chaos I had was mostly at home. School was my calm place.
- dmvdoug 3y agoThis is something I hear startlingly often. It's not the majority of kids, by any means, but I've had a number of students who fail classes so they have to go to summer school, just to escape from home.
- solarmist 3y agoIt wasn’t that intense for me or even a conscious choice. For me it was neglect and a chaotic environment. (Think growing up as a “roommate” of a depressed nonfunctional alcoholic) Similarly, I had enough positive attention that I wanted to continue and make it to college. Edit: bad-> intense. I need to stop minimizing what I went through.