I feel like highschools a joke

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>Ok you want to talk about empathy let’s turn it around real quick and look at me </p>

<p>I was put a situation I personally didn’t like… High school was too much to for me to be able to concentrate on schooling. It’s not that I didn’t have good experiences, it’s that I didn’t like those good experiences I was having because I felt that that wasn’t want high school should have been offering me</p>

<p>So I dropped out, took what I looked at as a more beneficial root for my goals</p>

<p>Then… You know that loser in your school that just partied all the time and looked like he didn’t give a **** about school, and when he dropped out you were like “yeah big surprise” </p>

<p>I was that loser… At least aesthetically… In my head I had goals, goals that were bigger and probably more realistic than the kids who were looking down on me like that </p>

<p>Every time I met a person, they’d ask me “what highschool do you go to” or “what grade are you in” … Every time I said “I dropped out” and watched that change in their eyes and opinion of me, it just annoyed me that much more. I stopped bothering to explain my goals to these people because it’s not like they would have believed that I could meet them anyway being a drop out</p>

<p>So no, I’m not snobby, I’m bitter </p>

<p>Anyway I like the tags you guys added to my thread. Homelessness? That’s nice</p>

<p>Anyway there’s a couple things you guys are overlooking in my first post</p>

<p>First of all from the second paragraph on is completely hypothetical, that was the route I would have taken had I dropped out earlier </p>

<p>Second, I don’t know where you guys are getting this “cutting into university time with cc time” ******** </p>

<p>It only takes ONE SEMESTER(a lot of people dont realize this) from a community college to transfer to a university. Mind yourself it may not be a great university and you may have you to prove yourself, you won’t lose out on any experience </p>

<p>With that one semester you can major in liberal arts instead of your intended major. That way when you get into that university you won’t have ANY time cut into your major</p>

<p>And if your plan is to go from that university to a better one, you can continue to take liberal arts at the first university as well. That way you have a full 4 years at the new one…</p>

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<p>My parents told me a long time ago that “Who you decide to be during your high school years, is who you are the rest of your life.” </p>

<p>I didn’t believe them back then, but now that I’m in high school, I realize that there may be a significant grain of salt in that statement. I say this based on all the experiences I’ve had as a hospital volunteer in the psychology/psychotherapy department (I help out the psychoanalysts/therapists, although recently I’ve been worrying about whether this is a breach of the patient-doctor confidentiality statute?) Anyways, the problems, bad traits, paradigms of the world that people develop during high school seem to have a significant influence on who they developed into, as well as the positive factors such as certain personality traits, morals, etc.</p>

<p>There are probably many exceptions to this, where kids that might have seemed like “lazy bums” or “hardcore druggies” turn their lives around and turn out to be respectable people that are completely different from their high school selves. However, the exceptions are still the minority, and the majority of adults right now have matured considerably, but still retain personality and perspective factors that they developed in high school, and will keep with their selves for the rest of their lives under stable conditions.</p>

<p>My two cents?</p>

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<p>Stupid Texas state law makes it illegal for students to not come to school. We get taken to court and we can’t just enroll early in community college or anything…</p>

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<p>Morals are taught in the home, social skills are learned in society. High school is just that facet of society that most teenagers are voluntarily or involuntarily forced into, however, that facet is not wholly necessary and can easily be replaced by, for example, community college, or just interaction with friends in general. </p>

<p>Now, if those morals aren’t taught at the home, that’s going to lead to negative social experiences(because the person is going to be presumably morally negative), and that may lead to dropping out of high school, but regardless, high school isn’t the critical factor in the situation. It starts at the home. </p>

<p>So in reply to your point (a person develops in high school and a lack of high school will most likely lead to negative personality and morality traits)
I disagree. A person’s morals are developed at home, and the facet of society that is high school, is just the most probable place for the individual to display the progress of that development, and to develop their societal traits based on that development.</p>

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<p>Well, if that is in response to my two cents. I do see how a substitution might be just as good as, if not better, than the “high school experience.”
I was trying to point out that, most likely, the things you discover about yourself and your personal development in high school (if attended) reflect upon the rest of your life, not necessarily that a lack of high school equals a lack of personal development.</p>