deprave
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Really? Since When?
High School Dropouts
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scroglodyte
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hihg scool drop-owts nead love two
UncleBuck
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since the constitution.
your position mirrors the guy you follow, where the 10th amendment seems to override the 14th. if ronald were gary johnson, i would be spamming with you. but gary is no ronald (and i don't understand why).
i believe in states' rights, but not in the same way ronald does.
londonfog
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Bottom line is I like what Obama is saying, but we can't MAKE kids stay in school, but we can encourage them that it is the right thing to do....For everyone saying that it is even remotely acceptable to drop out of highschool is crazy talk. If you wouldn't tell your child to do it why would you want the next mans child to do so..Stop trying to dumb down the nation.... STAY IN SCHOOL
WillyBagseed
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Do people even check high school diplomas anymore? I have never been asked to produce one, just check a box or 2...... and I have been in the work force for over 35 years.
deprave
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I guees they do sometimes, I had to show mine once about 10 years ago for a government contracted job but yes it is extremely rare. Probably more of a big corporate thing and I usually work for small companies.
NLXSK1
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Yes, if you look like you just got out of high school.....
Otherwise they only care about your work experience.
tet1953
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This is a very good point. Never really thought about it, but makes sense.
unohu69
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I see a question being formed.
How many HS drop outs wish they hadnt? how many of us really think they should have paid more attention maybe gone onto higher schooling.
I wish i had a better guidance system in school, maybe tougher parents would have helped also. For a lot of us, it really takes a special kind of person to recognize our abilities, with the right guidance I could have achieved so much more.
How many HS drop outs wish they hadnt? how many of us really think they should have paid more attention maybe gone onto higher schooling.
I wish i had a better guidance system in school, maybe tougher parents would have helped also. For a lot of us, it really takes a special kind of person to recognize our abilities, with the right guidance I could have achieved so much more.
NLXSK1
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That falls to the parents and the individual though. Nobody can force you to learn.
sync0s
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After reading the transcript I see that you are right and he did call upon the states. I'm still heavily opposed to the states doing it, though.
VILEPLUME
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I agree too many kids today are spoiled and dont listen.Under 18 ??? No liberty for you unless we adults say so.
Now, GET OFF MY LAWN !!
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mountaingarden
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Back in the dinosaur time when I was in school (60's), there were two academic paths at the high school. You could be in voc tech (welding, shop, mechanical drawing, automotive...a bit later) or college prep. There was a little overlap (I took mechanical drawing and went on to college), but the guys in those programs (no girls allowed then!) got great, family wage jobs....once they got back from being drafted.
Seriously, people learn and enjoy different ways. Some are content to sit in front of a computer all day, some need to be outside or they go crazy (that would be me). When they kicked voc/tech to the curb and focused on this goofy one size fits all education is when things started spiraling down. The public school system is a mess, and until Teaching to the Test goes away, it will stay that way.
Very hard to unring mandates, even when they don't work. I homeschooled my daughter grades 5, 7, and 8. Oak Meadows curriculum. High school was too easy for her after being fully engaged. Very grateful for the public education I was lucky enough to get...kindergarden through university. Maybe someday it will return to some form of that....we're getting our asses kicked by every emerging nation on this planet!
TheChodesman
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I have an Honors GED. I barely attended high school and was expelled most of the time. I stayed home and smoked my little bit of adolescent pot and resins I could gather and watched the History Channel all day. In retrospect I should have stayed in school but schools around here are awful. I took the ASVAB to join the Army last year and scored a 94. Now I attend a shitty metro community college and have somehow maintained a 3.5+ GPA writing strange papers late at night between intermittent bong hits. I was the weird kid in school with the shitty clothes who stayed to himself and was disgusted with how stupid everyone is. I was expelled five times. You can call me angsty, cynical or whatever but the American education system is garbage. Kids I went to school with who actually graduated are border-line retarded, the type of dumb fucker who can't compile a facebook status. High school students are worried about getting fucked up and fingerbanging each other. Kids nowadays are all hopped up on internet and bathsalts. Back when I was 13 I had to jerk off to a miscellaneous collection of torn out pages from Hustlers and the like. Kids need some humility. I'm 22 by the way. I feel like a crazy old man.
Also I haven't had a job in five years and am living off student loans. I'm a man-child.
Also I haven't had a job in five years and am living off student loans. I'm a man-child.