My generation..

[Tupac]

At my old school, they combined the middle class, and the kids living in the ghetto.

It was about half and half, but you can guess who made the trouble.

My school had one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy in the state, and one of the highest dropout rates.

[vorticon]

My school has a very VERY divided student base. There are the kids who will excell in life and go on to college and get a good job, then the kids who will go work at McDonald's until they are 40 and eventually pass out in a ditch and wander into the unemployment office. I'm in advanced classes and I don't see a single kid in them that won't be successful when they leave with a Diploma. Then in the elective classes, where the two divisions mingle together, I see new faces almost every time and almost all of them smoke pot or do drugs, mindless sex 24/7 and it makes me realize how the public school system can only do so much. So much of the students lives are out of the reach of public education.

i know college grads that work at starbucks and i know grade 9 dropouts running successful businesses. don't assume academic success automatically means success afterwords.

[CAP1]

i know college grads that work at starbucks and i know grade 9 dropouts running successful businesses. don't assume academic success automatically means success afterwords.

because i was quiet, and had only a couple of friends, everyone thought i'd be the garbage man in town.


 i run my own repair shop now, whereas one of the friends i had died by drowning in his bathtub...heroine.....and another was high, and got hit by a car. most of the rest that i knew are just workers. couple are local cops.......

[fbWldcat]

i know college grads that work at starbucks and i know grade 9 dropouts running successful businesses. don't assume academic success automatically means success afterwords.

It all has to do with how things pan out, but I know that most of the kids divided into the other portion of the student base won't go anywhere because at least 3/4 of them smoke, some pot and some tobacco, drink, text n' drive, have constant sex and do countless other drugs. Now I'm not saying there aren't any outliers in the divisions, I see kids in the bad division who could really have a bright future if they work for it, I see kids in the advanced classes who barely get by and might not get a break in life, who knows how they will end up? But you're right, it doesn't matter, it all has to do with how things unfold.

[BrownBaron]

It all has to do with how things pan out, but I know that most of the kids divided into the other portion of the student base won't go anywhere because at least 3/4 of them smoke, some pot and some tobacco, drink, text n' drive, have constant sex and do countless other drugs. Now I'm not saying there aren't any outliers in the divisions, I see kids in the bad division who could really have a bright future if they work for it, I see kids in the advanced classes who barely get by and might not get a break in life, who knows how they will end up? But you're right, it doesn't matter, it all has to do with how things unfold.

Well said.

[vorticon]

It all has to do with how things pan out, but I know that most of the kids divided into the other portion of the student base won't go anywhere because at least 3/4 of them smoke, some pot and some tobacco, drink, text n' drive, have constant sex and do countless other drugs. Now I'm not saying there aren't any outliers in the divisions, I see kids in the bad division who could really have a bright future if they work for it, I see kids in the advanced classes who barely get by and might not get a break in life, who knows how they will end up? But you're right, it doesn't matter, it all has to do with how things unfold.

so what do you figure they have to do with their life to have made something of themselves?

yeah, they probably won't be doctors/lawyers/engineers or even running their own business as a tradesman...but there will be as few from your class that end up as complete losers as there are that end up going really far. the rest will end up fine. "just workers" yes...but hardly stuck in some go nowhere mcjob.

[Vudak]

It all has to do with how things pan out, but I know that most of the kids divided into the other portion of the student base won't go anywhere because at least 3/4 of them smoke, some pot and some tobacco, drink, text n' drive, have constant sex and do countless other drugs.

I'm surprised you seem to think that someone with the charisma and confidence required to have copious amounts of sex is going nowhere in life.

Pretty much everything you listed as a fault has the ability to nurture extremely valuable life skills.  Some will get something good out of these experiences, and others won't.  Some will live, and others will die.  Some things you mentioned are a bit harder to see the possible benefit of, but rest assured, it's there.  Now whether or not someone will get that benefit is another story...

[fbWldcat]

I'm surprised you seem to think that someone with the charisma and confidence required to have copious amounts of sex is going nowhere in life.

Pretty much everything you listed as a fault has the ability to nurture extremely valuable life skills.  Some will get something good out of these experiences, and others won't.  Some will live, and others will die.  Some things you mentioned are a bit harder to see the possible benefit of, but rest assured, it's there.  Now whether or not someone will get that benefit is another story...

Does it help my cause to say that they do not have a work ethic, and if it weren't required by law, would not come to school at all. And anyway, I already said that there are outliers, and it just depends on how things pan out.