"Stay in school" "Don't drop out you'll regret it" HOW can people say this who DIDN'T drop out themselves!? They don't know if you willl regret it or not! They only say that because they themselves would have regretted if they had dropped out of school. The only peoples oppinion that "dropping out will be regretful" are people who dropped out and got their GED right away. Why do people say this if you are going to get your GED, go to a communtiy college, and then later transfer to larger university anyway? This is what I am doing and am going to be a teacher. I have no friends, and dont care to go to a graduation, or reuinions etc. Also why do people say that you cant do as much with a GED? if you can get a GED and become a teacher of a highschool isnt anything possible!?
2007-12-17 18:50:36 · 9 answers · asked by Me 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
Well, I'm earning MORE (WAY more) dollars per hour than those little kids who never had their Education completed. What do they earn? 7-8 dollars per hour. Working in a Department store. Or Fast Food.
Unless they are born savants and genies (like Bill Gates), I say completing your education is worth it.
2007-12-17 18:55:14 · answer #1 · answered by Vince M 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I say it. Not because I dropped out and didn't graduate, I didn't. I finished. I know a lot of people who dropped out of school. I know someone who dropped out their SENIOR year of high school. Their last six weeks of the year, just because "she turned 18"....
My dad, sister and I were the first people in our family to graduate. (except for maybe a couple of cousins and a couple aunts). What's the point of dropping out to begin with? I've experienced graduation and it was the best day/night of my life. I wasn't popular either. I had friends, but I wasn't like cheerleader and football player popular. I still don't regret it for anything in the world, and you know? I miss school right now. It was so much easier than the real world. You hate it when you're there, and you're not the only one, but once it is over, you realize you didn't really have any problems there.
Who cares about having a lot of friends at school? Let me tell you something. Most of those people live to drink, party, have sex, etc. Those people, you won't even see anymore after high school, or you'll just fall completely apart from them. You find out who your real friends are after highschool and/or college.
I'm not trying to lecture you. Basically if you want to drop out of school, that's your decision. But I think that if I can graduate, anyone can. I hated school with a passion. I hated getting up early every day just to go to school. I hated how the principal was. I hated how some of the teachers were. But I got through it. And it was the best accomplishment I ever made. And I'm way better off then anyone I know who is a drop out.
2007-12-18 05:33:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you've got your mind made up already, so why phrase this in the form of a question? A GED is not the same as a diploma. It gives you the "equivalency" but does not erase the fact that you quit school, which can give the impression that you are unable to keep to a task and give up too easily. Of course, there can be circumstances that prevented you from finishing high school, but the attitude you have seems to expect justification for your actions.
People can research a subject and then give an opinion. (Perhaps if you'd stayed in school you would have known this). You don't have to die to think you'd regret it. For someone who drops out of high school, only the most committed are able obtain a degree. It takes work. For the rest of them, my question is "Do you want fries with that?"
2007-12-18 04:40:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Actually, you are more limited with a GED than with a high school diploma. There is a stigma attached to it that will keep you from getting interviews at jobs and such. Plus a GED has no GPA attached to it, so it has no real measure of academic achievements.
There is also the point of not living up to your responsibilities. Your 'job' as a teenager is to attend high school and graduate. Dropping out is not fulfilling your commitments, and does not reflect well on you. If there are other circumstances, like family illness that require you to graduate earlier that is different. But just not wanting to shows alot about your character (or to some people lack thereof).
And how feasible is your plan? With a GED, you can be admitted to community college, but you will limited in what universities you can transfer to. And any college wil require SAT or ACT scores and possibly state testing as well.
You also may need alot more than a college degree to become a high school teacher. I think to teach at that level, you need years of experience teaching in middle school and/or a masters degree in your subject of choice.
Personally, stay in school. You want to graduate sooner, take classes in the summer and by correspondence to graduate faster and then you can go to community college, etc.
And I wont point out the obvious irony in wanting to drop out of high school to teach high school...
2007-12-18 03:02:21 · answer #4 · answered by Meghan 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
A GED is equivalent to a high school diploma. There is nothing wrong with dropping out and getting your GED, but there is something wrong with just dropping out and not continuing your education.
2007-12-18 12:18:54 · answer #5 · answered by kidfree 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Believe it or not, people who are older than you have access to a perspective on the world that those younger do not. This is not to say that they are always right though.
People who say "welcome to the real world" give me a pain in the butt. I had an otherwise reasonable aunt say that to me once. Until I went to uni I worked a 42 hour week, so I found this somewhat insulting. I had also moved out of home 3 years earlier. Oh well.
2007-12-18 04:01:50 · answer #6 · answered by Rosie_0801 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would say its your own choice but i don't think any school would hire a high school drop out to be a teacher , what example would you be setting for your students if you told them you were a drop out.
i never had any real friends in school but i went to my graduation and got my diploma , i just don't go to the reunions,
2007-12-18 04:06:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you think that maybe they look around and see other people who did drop and and have no life. You dont jsut learn lessons from your own life you learn lessons from things you see around you as well. If you dont know this well then you need to stay in school and pay attention cause you are obviously dont know as much as you think.
2007-12-18 02:58:47 · answer #8 · answered by Jemjems_Mummy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree. it is like when people fatter tha you tell you how to lose weight. no credibility.
2007-12-18 11:30:12 · answer #9 · answered by sugarpie2 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋