Is there anyone out there that thinks even high school dropouts will do fine in life?

Question

I have a problem with what the states require for graduation. They require way too much out of students. Why in hell do they need literature and how to do a term paper?

literature is a load of bullshit and I refuse to go back to school to listen to it.

Answer 1

If you can't handle high school, what makes you think you can handle real life?

Who's going to give you a job? Without a job how will you pay your bills? Are you going to mooch of your folks for the rest of your life?

They don't require as much now as when I was in high school. Suck it up, do what's required and get your diploma.

Answer 2

Sure, drop outs will do find if they like serving hamburgers the rest of their life. But seriously, I wonder the same things when I was in high school "why the heck do we need history" was my big question. I hated the subject. I thought that's the past, I don't need to know that. But I look at the world today, and am so happy I know some history. It helps me understand the role of the US in conflicts and wars, and also the international community. Literature helped my vocabulary, and gave me the ability to speak more intelligently, which helped do great on my interviews for jobs. Do you see where I am going? All these studies will make you a well rounded, well read, individual, and that will help you succeed in life. A little investment now in your education will pay off BIG as you go through life. Don't Give up! Do it, and do it with the knowledge that this will be important to you throughout your adult life.

Answer 3

I think they will do better with an education than dropping out. I've never known a drop out who was happy and making the living they wanted to. All eventually at least got their GED.

You need literature and term papers as exercises in cohesive thought and argument preparation. As you go through life, you have to be able to organize yourself and your thoughts for a variety of reasons -- work, play, community activities. If you can express yourself and your ideas, then people with listen.

Literature and term papers help develop these skills. Literature is also someone else's view on life. It can open you up to points of views and aspects of life that you would have no way of knowing existed.

Literature also helps you understand the world and learn from others' experiences (to a certain degree).

It's certainly OK not to like "literature" -- but that probably means that you have not found the genre or writer or specific literature that speaks to you.

Answer 4

Whether we like to admit it or not, one of the advantages of completing high school is that it demonstrates a minimal level of socialization--it proves to future employers that you're willing to wake up every day, trudge into school, do your work, and trudge home. That's why enlistment in the armed forces and college are essentially the same in some employers' eyes: both prove that you can be relied on to do a job.

The basic skill set isn't quite so consequential, but employers still value the writing, math, critical thinking, problem solving, and other skills the standard curriculum implies. It's worth weathering as well as you can, even if you think the requirements are unreasonable, because it will open up more doors for you further down the road.

Answer 5

Stay in school, buddy. It may tough, but it'll be worth it. If you quit this now, you may find yourself quitting everything else for the rest of your life. It's true that high school dropouts CAN do fine, but look at the statistics. High school graduates earn consistently more than those that don't, and college graduates earn consistently than those who don't.

Look, I hate literature too. But, you just have to stick through this. It'll just take a little work.

Answer 6

Well I'll tell you me story and then you be the judge. I am male 48 years old i quit school when i was 16 that's 32 years ago. I had no ideal what I was goin to do but anyway I QUIT. Well for about 2 or 3 years i worked at junkyards taking parts off of cars. Then people started asking me if i would help them put a part on a car after i got off of work. This went on for about a year so I decided to just start working on cars for a living. Well NOW 30 years later I make about $80,000 a year doin what i do best and that's working on cars.. And my son who is 27 now he did the same thing i did and quit school Now he works on cars and makes $400 a week but he don't work for me.. Because he drinks and i don't and it always causes a problem with us so he don't work for me.. Anyway as you can see schooling diden really matter to me because the 3 R's woulden have helped me anyway.. But if you do quit school be ready to work hard in what ever you try to do. because it's not easy being dumb like me............

Answer 7

they have gone over board in my eyes anyway but the way the world is goin it has become too competative and they have to keep up with the other countries so you can keep on top to hold our country strong I know it su-- but ya, and as for graduates my son has not he quit and so did we its not a good road to be on thats for sure the struggles are hard and if goin to always make sure you do a ged and then some kind of degree other wise you will suffer like us and its not fun and harder now then when we did it, my son is doin a ged this fall he missed it by his scores werent spread out enough had enough points to pass but not spread even between the catagories, he is a father now and is workin every chance he gets but still not makin enough to get anywhere, he also has a job that pays more than any of the others but its seasonal and hard work, please think of him and get some kind of degree

Answer 8

I dropped out for a year after my son was born because I got a call when I was in the hospital that I have to come back to school after I am released and I was very upset I wanted time with my son so I dropped out and a year later I took a GED course at Boces and passed a month after my class graduated so now I have my GED and my son now 2 and I am looking into job corps for autobody in Brooklyn, NY but I want to wait for when my son turns 3 so he can go to preschool and I won't be missing him too much. I don't trust day cares or babysitters because my cousins baby was smothered to death and you never know who really is going to be taking care of your child. I have a lot of help from my mom and my 3 older brothers. I am very grateful for their help too.

Answer 9

I'll give you the answer, but it won't do any good if your mindset is one that the class is ridiculous to begin with.
It doesn't matter where you go in life, what career path your life takes, you will be required to communicate well. Being able to get your ideas across is paramount in any working environment, and being that this democracy has seen fit to allow our governmental learning institutions, these being schools, to get our future generations ready for the working world, as well as the rest of their lives, communication is a focal point of this preparation. You are required to meet the guidelines for this communication, oral report, written report, learning how to learn, to do research, because if you don't, parents in your state will stop giving the government their hard-earned tax dollars.
So, long story short; parents think that kids need to learn to communicate effectively, if you can't meet the expectations of your school, in order to satisfy your parents, who will complain and stop giving the government money, the school will not get money for itself. A vicious cycle of learning, but it is necessary, as an idealistic society will always need to be financed in some form or another.
P.S.
Literature may seem like B.S. to you, but its ironic how you hate it so much that you create it on the internet to voice your opinion.

Answer 10

Nice man, your concern is great, and not for your own interest. Many of us-youths-suffer for luck of knowing,not that we are not able, not that we can not perform ,and above all not that we have insufficient education.
Believe in yourself that you can do much better with the knowledge that you already have(from schooling up since you started pre-unit, till you completed high school, and that you have acquired from experience along your growth, plus what God Has helped you to know by His grace).
Start projects that you can afford, involve interested friends- for easy contribution of capital, and try yourself[selves].
I believe this will show you and prove to others that you can succeed beyond those with higher educational qualifications.