Why do people just not care about high school?

Stormcloud
Tue, 03 Dec 2013 21:21:09 +0000

Some people have things they care about much more than school. Examples at my school include one or two artists who want jobs as graphic designers/insert artsy job here and know they can get to the colleges/jobs they want with subpar academic grades.

Others have a more carefree view of life. These are the ones that are satisfied with B’s, and maybe an occasional C, even though they could probably do better. Either they do not wish to be highly successful (with ambition comes lost sleep and lost time), or they believe that the difference between straight A’s and straight B’s is not life-or-death.

Some are disadvantaged. The simple fact is that, at some public schools, it can take hours for a school-bus-riding student to get home. All that lost time is valuable. That’s just one example of luck.

And others, the ones with the C’s and D’s, may either don’t care at all, or are trying but can’t cope. Even then, it’s not as if their world will end. The nice thing about being young is that there are always opportunities. One failure, or even several, is not reason for panic.